flat flex cable / 50 conductor seems to be as large as the pre-made jumpers come.

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Would 3 x ready made 40 pin cables do the trick?

CPU socket board with the cables attached

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Is there some kind of pass-through socket you could purchase ready made, and jam the cable ends into the back of? Even if there is, I guess price advantage and time are still debatable.

Or, on another tip, is there any sort of crimp or IDC connector that would match the pin pitch of the CPU socket? I'm picturing 4 connectors along each side of the socket, with some pins broken off to match the hole pattern

I assume that 68030 ICE cables are way too expensive and rare. I've been tempted to pick one up each time I've spotted on one ebay, but the price has always put me off.

I wonder if there is a board mount mate for that logic board/analog board cable connector? I'm thinking in terms of a CPU socket board that plugs into the CPU socket and into the logic/analog board connector. That way it can cover that connector. Then the analog/logic board cable could plug into the adapter board somewhere else. Hmmm.

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I had the same thought about the PDS socket - a pass-thru, or as TylerEss suggests, a hole.

Although I read your first post as saying the clearance problem was with the Daystar, not your adapter board.

I wonder what it would cost to just run a cable from the PDS {CPU} out the back to a box and just have a couple PDS slots / expansion box

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Hey now .... One of those zero-footprint hard drive cases under the SE/30 for example. In fact, if you socket the connector on the back of the case, you could easily swap the accelerator/adapter box from one Mac to another.