I fought this battle on my Hemi Dart project. Everything was in the way of anything I tried. So I had the cable come out of the shifter and go to the passenger side and loop around the tranny to the driver side where I anchored the end of the cable to the stud at the kick down linkage pivot on the tranny bell shousing. And then welded a pivot on the adjuster threads and used that to connect to the shift lever.

In essence, I switched the anchor and the shifter lever locations.

Works great and I have had no cable problems.