here's what I would do:
Sell the PPC card / Get one of the NewerTech 50MHz 68040 upgrades

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ebay seller dlchief58 has them at pretty reasonable prices.

Get a SiliconExpress IV or a JackHammer SCSI card, hook it up to a 266x CF card on a IDE->Wide SCSI adaptor. A 15,000 RPM hard drive would probably provide comparable performance at a much lower price... the 18GB Cheetah 15K.III is fast, cool, quiet, and quite a bargain on the used market.

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Unless you really want a quiet machine, the CF card and SCSI-IDE converter is a waste of money. I'd go for a fast 68 pin SCSI drive - the SCSI Nubus cards can mount them, whereas the onboard SCSI only takes 50 pin drives.

Fast SCSI drives can be noisy though. If you want a cheaper quiet option than the CF card, a SCSI-IDE converter and a Seagate IDE drive is worth considering.

There's a good list of Nubus video cards at http://www.lowendmac.com/video

266x? You must be joking. The Jackhammers only are 20 MB/s, and that assumes the machine can even handle that much data. ...

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/ I'd pick the 266x card just to be totally sure.

They're about double the 133x price / I guess it's a toss-up, but I have to agree that the 133x card is the better idea.

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How on earth can that be a "toss up"? It's a complete waste of money for speed you are definitely, not probably, not using.

but on the other, you already sunk 80 into a SCSI-IDE adaptor

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There's a member here who has them for sale for about half that. Searchy searchy