Torque cam for 318 2bbl

Its not exactly torque your looking for. A natural aspirated engine torque is mainly based on displacement. 1:1 to 1.5:1 lbs-ft per cid 1:1 would be on the stock side and 1.5:1 would be a highly modified professional race engine.

What your looking for is at what rpm does your cam start working at. The heavier the car with small displacement especially with high rear gears and tall tires with low stall and less trans gears. Basically needs to start at low possible rpm like idle or just off idle. The more your car is opposite to the above the more you can move the powerband off idle for higher hp.

On a low powered V8 any cam above stock is gonna start to move off idle. For your application the trick would to go with a cam that doesn't give up and even may give a little extra down low while extending the powerband up the rpm. Luckily on althe lower end of cam choices you can widen the powerband without effecting low end power too much. But where to draw the line is up to the individual the most I'd go is like a comp xe262h. So theres a wide range of cams you could go with between that and stock.

With 2bbl I'd stick closer to stock.