Since mounting the motor is my first order of business I started scanning the RCU pages to see how everyone has mounted their Pletty Advance's. I see that F3A Unlimited has a cool mount setup, but in talking with someone who tried to use that mount in a Nuance it turns out that the front mount plate is too big. Darn. But the rear support works fine in the Nuance. I asked Chris at F3A Unlimited if there is any way to purchase just the rear mount. He is going to make it available as a separate part! So, now my job is a bit easier. I am attaching a pick of the full mount system for reference. The tail support mount is the part that you need.

I am printing out a 40mm bolt circle template with 6 holes so I can use it as a template for my front mount bolts. I'm posting the PDF of the bolt circle pattern which also has a 27mm circle at the center (according to the pletty print, this is the diameter of the shaft/bearing raised portion at the center of the motor). The actual firewall mount should be pretty simple, I just need to determine the diameter of the nose at the firewall location then cut out the disc.

B.J. Park says that you aren't absolutely required to have a rear support for the Pletty in this particular airframe. But, I think it is prudent to put one in and it is a pretty simple matter so I am going to install a rear support. I will be hard mounting the motor, no soft mount. The main reason is that there is no room for a soft mount with this motor and airframe. Also, I don't know of a good way to soft mount this beast that won't cause some other problem. From what I can tell, this is a fairly quiet setup anyway so there is no real need to soft mount it.