I caught a couple of things that Neil may not have picked up on. You probably won't need a shaft saver on it. Its a square drive, the end is square going into the motor, and the other end is in ferrule and captured at the strut where the prop is. A shaft saver would be overkill, IMO. The coupler system is pretty standard for a wet exhaust. The water being injected should help keep it cooler, and help to quiet it as well. One thought I had was to take the water pump out of the equation to test cooling. You will have to block the line for crankcase pressure that runs the pump, but if you do that and hook the water lines up direct and run it like that, you will see if it is the pump. If the pump is blocked or not working as it should, it wont matter how much water you push its way. If you do this, cap the crankcase so it doesnt leak air pressure (You'll lose compression and it will run very flat), and hook one line up from either the rudder or transom pickup to the motor, and the other to the inlet for the header.