How bad did it tear up the block?
A very tight high volume high pressure oil pump making a bunch of oil pressure will suck the cam back too....
These can typically be fixed, get a hardened steel cam gear shim from someone like Cloyes (Cloyes premium timing gears are steel and not cast, so they are hungry for the softer iron) and have the front of the block cleaned up and drill an oil hole through the front cam bearing oiling channel, typically 3/64 is more than enough oil, this lubricates the back side of the cam gear (old marathon motor trick) even when top end oil flow is limited...
Hope this helps even a little...I think I have some pictures of the whitewater motor somewhere that I have drilled and machined for this exact job...gotta go find them...

GT