kickdown issues

Okay, so I switched out my old 1bbl carter and upgraded to a super six intake and clifford 3 into 1 headers. Along the conversion, I didn't have the actual kickdown linkage and the mechanic used a lokar cable. We also had to swap out the original gas pedal with a newer cable style.

Anyway, after this is all said and done I no longer have kickdown/passing gear. If i tighten the kickdown cable I can get it to kickdown into passing gear but it shifts late as a result. It will hold 1st gear way to long. so the current comprimise is just to have it shift correctly but not have passing gear.

Is there a way to have both? Considering that's how it is supposed to be? I had a similar problem about a year ago, after having transmission work done and a couple of adjustments later everything worked fine, granted that was with factory linkage.