I am biased against Comp cams. I have never bought one, and don't foresee buying one. But in addition to the poor reputation for oil pump drive worm problems, there is also their offering of generic (i.e., Chevrolet) lobes as "upgrades" for Mopar engines. This throws away the advantage of the larger tappet diameter on Mopar engines for the sake of laziness on Comp's part. That, and I've seen too many installations of their "upgrade" 252 cam that just didn't run well no matter what the owner did with them. None for me, thanks, I'm driving.
Why not look at one of the cams Doc (Doug Dutra) has developed? RV10-RDP or RV15-RDP? See this (long) thread. I have yet to see anything but enthusiastic reactions from those who've bought these cams.
As for detailed builds: Start here and here. Why don't you see horsepower numbers? Because they're mostly horsepuckey numbers that don't really mean anything and are mostly useful only for fuelling pissing contests on the internet. It is an error to focus with tunnel vision on horsepower numbers. It leads to large amounts of money wasted on ill-advised parts and combinations, with sad results. It's happened right here on this board; we have one member who insisted on building his engine to a horsepower number he pulled out of the air. Despite the best efforts of many to get him steered in a productive direction, he was bound and determined to read a bunch of different builds and pick the pieces and specs he liked best from each build. He was sure he was going to have a 225 that put out the same horsepower as a 440. He never attained it, and his engine never ran well.
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