Camshaft Distributor Gear Damage...?

Post pictures of the damage. Also, how's the distributor shear pin that holds the gear in place?

Need to match the gear for metal compatibility or else it will wear in a couple hundred miles
Where in Canada are you?
Will

I will post some pictures later today.
The shear pin is fine.
It is a steel gear which is correct for that engine according to the documentation from Ford Racing.

I'd want to closely inspect the cam gear and that isn't going to happen looking thru a small hole from 8" away. So since its not hard to pull the cam with the engine in place, you might as well order the necessary gasket sets right now. If its a stock or stock-type hardened cast cam and you don't want to replace it with something better- of which there are many, you might get away with Dremel-polishing the cam's chipped teeth. Do NOT rely on a new distributor gear to 'polish things up'.

Note also that stock distributor gears can be replaced using your original distributor and following Ford's guidelines. But Loc-tite that nut that came loose this time- or discard the mod! This is the second 351-C in a Pantera I've heard of that was messed up by a bolted-in mod coming loose inside a distributor. The other one was on a Roush-modified engine and was far more expensive to repair. As they say, 'there's no horsepower gain from an ignition but there are certainly losses'!

I had a Compcams camshaft, new out of the box that when I touched the thing three teeth crumbled off of it.

I'm told that the issue is the blanks are being purchased from "overseas" and that the cams are cut on slave machines. Something like one in four are only being quality checked.

Compcams replaced the cam as "a courtesy" saying that their warranty did not cover this kind of a problem. Nice huh?

It could have happened internally in the engine and probably no one would have looked for that when the engine stopped running. Not until it got torn down that is.

Consider yourself lucky that's as bad as it got?

I have NEVER NEVER NEVER heard of an OEM cam failing like that. Aftermarket just keeps finding ways of lowering the standards.