Next up is the parking brake. It took me forever to decide how I wanted to route this. I wanted them hidden as best as possible. I thought about running them down the outside driver's side like DSE tends to do, but that would have just caused me to fab and cut a lot more than I wanted to. What I decided on was to run the primary cable out the floor just like stock and tuck it up against the floor board on it's way to the top of the transmission tunnel where it meets up with the rear cables. There's plenty of room above the drive shaft for this. I used Lokar cables front and rear. I passed the rear cable through the rear frame rails. I got some thick walled steel tubing from McMaster Carr to make the pass through in the frame rail. To seal off the cable where it passes through the floor board, I made a simple steel plate along with some rubber gasket material behind it and bolted it to the floor. This should work well enough.
Rear frame rail pass through
Another angle
Here's where the front cable passes through from the pedal
Where the cables come together in the tunnel. It's not as straight as I thought it would be but I was working on my back. It'll do though.
So far, I'm not very happy with the cables at all. The parking brake simply won't hold the car. I'm investigating the parking brakes themselves, but I think it's cable related. I spent a lot of time adjusting the cables. The pedal would be nice and tight on the first press yet it still wouldn't hold the car. When released, the pedal also wouldn't spring all the way back. The next press of the pedal would be weak like the cables needed adjusting. So I'd adjust them and try again. I did this a number of times and it's not gotten any better. If anyone has a suggestion, I'm all ears. Otherwise, they have been a waste of well over $200.