Mounting the coolant rail.

Here is a nice picture of the intake manifold and coolant rail bolted to the engine.

Amazingly the manifold bolted right onto the car. 

We are re-using the XJ6 coolant rail, which was nicely re-painted black. This way we can keep the thermostat housing and return lines in close to the original locations.

  
 Here is a nice shot of the intake, without the throttle bodies installed yet.

 It wouldn't be British if it didn't leak.

 A quick pressure test of the system revealed our first major hurdle. The bolt holes which were still open to the water passage were unfortunately also open to the edge of the runners. Hence we have a pretty bad coolant leak. On the positive side, it wasn't leaking coolant into the intake.