I finally got off work early and got to it!
Even better was my son came out to the garage to help, did I mention he's almost 12

So I had stripped the exhaust manifolds of rust and painted them with some heat resistant stuff, well see.

Tuesday (today) we mounted and torqued them down. Then we managed to hook up the computer to the engine all went well.
We then filled the trans with oil & called it a night. A good productive few hours. I hope to install the engine/trans this week.