Hi Everyone,
Dave here. I'm building (and hope to someday be driving) my MK4 Roadster in California and am currently working on the emergency brake. The build manual has the emergency brake cables running underneath the rear 4" frame cross member before traveling to the brakes. I heard somewhere that the car will not pass inspection with the brake cables configured this way (running under the frame). However, if the cables are routed above the frame member they are too long and the handle mounting bracket interferes with the clevices because the cables travel downward to the clevices instead of upward to the clevices. Can anyone shed any light on whether the car will fail inspection if these cables pass beneath the frame and, if so, what alternative solutions are there to route the cables differently? Any advice on working through this would be appreciated.

Thanks.
Confused in San Diego

P.S. For the record, I did have the same issue many of you have written about in the forum about the difficulty getting the emergency brake handle to clear the aluminum on the transmission tunnel. I used a combination of cutting out some of the offending aluminum, shorter screws on the handle, elongating the grooves in the two mounting brackets, and some not so gentle massaging with a mallet. All that combined with some well-timed profanity seemed to do the trick.