340 gone! Performance shop shut down! Help!

I hate to play the devil's advocate here, and you do need to jump on this before these people file for bankruptcy, BUT

in many places this is not legally fraud or theft until it can be proven, and bankruptcy will not be, either

No legal entity is going to let you, or escort you somewhere to get "stuff" that you say is yours. So unless you have some pretty good proof that your engine is "your engine," it's not gonna leave.

A pair of heads on a bench might be tough, unless you have previously marked them!!!

Crank, other misc engine parts will be impossible to prove.

Um its pretty easy to prove that the engine is his. He has pics of him dropping it off at the shop and also its a matching numbers engine. All he would need is the title with the vin # and just match it up to the block. Maybe if its disassembled he would have a hard time proving the internals are his but i'm sure he would at least want to have the numbers matching block.