Good call on the molding idea.. will have to find hair dryer, I think I have a paint stripper heat gun somewhere. The hull is abs, had lined the inner with fibre glass after seeing quicksilvers hull that looked like it was through hell and back. I was thinking it could be possible to make one long strip of aluminum like quicksilver and mount the jet drive directly to it then mount the whole thing and plug to transom.

There's only one thing wrong with the idea, it would require the aluminum strip to be wider than if I do it the way I am now. Because it would have to go completely around the drive and I'm sure I would want a few (3mm) thickness on the edges. The mounting of the motor is just a strip of aluminum with the holes in almost the right location. Done by hand and drill press, really really need a clamp for the drill press. Verner (measuring tool) is invaluable for this stuff, 7 bucks at princess auto.

Ivan.

Oh for images for mounting bracket... A quick way that I made this...

Get strip of aluminum (mines 1" wide a meter long, do all the drilling before you cut your bracket off the main piece)
Drill main hole, ie find drill bit as large as needed for motor, then get verner, measure the mounting holes for motor. Drill on both sides of main hole in aluminum.
Then test, if it works great, then continue to step three, other wise start drilling process again a little down strip.
measure mounting holes for jet drive.
use verner to scratch where holes should be. (oh yea you want to start the hole so the drill bit knows where to go, get a hammer and a punch, I used a screw, works just as well)
drill holes, I drilled mine the same size as the screws and ran the 2.6mm screws in and out a few times to create threads (love aluminum just wish I could weld it)
after everything seems to work out, cut the plate from the rest of the aluminum.

mount motor to plate, mount plate to drive.

Also just a note, the motor shaft was way to small, I think it was 3mm or smaller, luckly I had some hobby aluminum that was 3.2 outdiameter and the inner diameter just fit over the shaft. used dremel to make indent for set screw, cut alumium by laying it on the ground and getting a box cutter blade and rolling the aluminum tubing back and forth on the blade where I wanted it cut. You can get surprisingly accurate for cutting aluminum tubing this way, just check to see if it needs to get cleaned up at all. pop on shaft, tighen.

Also I gotta say this shaft for the mini jet is a little f'd up because the set point on the prop shaft is way too far forward. Actually I noticed a few things they could certainly improve on this drive. LIKE THE WASHER THAT SITS BEHIND THE PROP AND INFRONT OF THE MAIN THRUST AREA, WHY IS THE WASHER SO BIG!?[:@]