question on mounting full lotus floats

[akflyer 1427]

I have a set of Full Lotus 1260's to Put on my avid.  The came with skystar rigging for a kitfox.  The kitfox has a float mount that is 10" ahead of the front gear attach point, that the Avid does not have.  The way the fuse pinches in at the nose, the most I could get would be about 4" if I welded in a new fitting.  What I am thinking of doing is just using the front gear mount and the rear mount would go under the wing strut at that attach point.  This puts the two mounts allot closer together than on most conventional float mounts (about 22"-24" apart).  While it may look a bit awkward, does anyone see any problem with doing this?  I don't want to end up breaking the back of the Avid because the rear mount was too far forward.... but then again, this is a pretty short coupled plane and has allot of bracing in the back... Any thoughts?