Warren, I've seen that carb mounted with the float bowl in the rear and on the side, as well as front. Turn it whatever way works with your cable and see what happens. Tom sells an air cleaner for the carb. Look here:
http://www.stoveboltengineco.com/acartpro/product.asp?productid=93 Tom has sold enough of these carbs and should have the answers for your cable problems. He will also sell you the steel adapter base plate/center stud to go on the carb without buying the A/C.
I bought his base plates and modified standard 6" 4bbl A/C bases to the adapters and used cheap chrome A/C's. You can see what I did here:
http://www.picturetrail.com/gallery/view?p=999&gid=8132073&uid=713086
