We went over this a few months back talked to some guys at schrick and talked with Terry. The Vectra in europe uses a quad cam 2.5 liter motor and a schrick swap netted about 28 bhp out of it prior to the swap the car made 200. I only use this because of the simalar size motor. SVE made some 270 degree cams as opposed to the 250 degree in there now. One, if not the most powerful motors on this board has those cams running in it.
I would bet that say some 266 cams and pcm along with headders and cat back all designed to work together would net you the 40 hp at the crank you want. I only wish these parts were made.
Its to bad that piper does not make the cams, v-springs, along with there headders and cat back. they do make some nice goods.
Another thing to look at is the new ST mondeo the 220. the V-valve timing is for emmisions yet the car puts out 220 hp in the same 2.5 block of our contour.
Lastly I couldnt agree more cams at say even $1000.00 that could add a good 20 wheel horse punch in the upper RPM range and only take say a 2-4 ft/lb trq loss in the swap would be ideal. Add to that headders for another 10 wheel hp and 10 ft/lb with a match cat back for another 4 hp would be just what the doctor ordered. Sorry for the damn long post.
