Ok, for the few of us that have our Works kits, what numbers are we seeing? I'm # 277, here in TX hill country. Car has 900mi on it now, harder to break in carefully than my M5. Anyone else nearby? I have a couple friends with orders, but I luckily ordered the 1st one at the local store. Love this car, really makes the S into an amazing car. I agree with Normalizer, just more everywhere. Torque is the best, feels like a 6, and 3rd gear is great. Having put 7k on my old car, the new car really feels completely different. Exhaust with LS header is pretty quiet, gets growly at WFO. Not riceriffic, no drone or rattles.
SCA, you're right about the vanes on the SC...they look lava-like, very different than series 4 or 5 blower vanes, including my new blower we took off(4/03 prod) Feels very coarse, like emery paper.
No badges for now, undecided if I'll put'em on.
Lee

 

Mine is #492. Will pick it up later today. I have a Madness intake that I will put on after a thorough test drive. The intake had a noticeable difference on the stock S and I'm quite curious to see if it gives more/less/same seat-of-pants oomph on the JCW S. Will post my test drives later today!

 

you guys are some very lucky people

 

yes,
the jealousy is overwhelming

have fun!
=danny=

 

Did any the jealous type here take a test drive in the JCW yet?

 

Picked up my JCW-fitted MCS yesterday. Wow, what a difference! I do agree now that the JCW car is what the MCS really should have been from the beginning. The MCS is an excellent car, but this thing is a little screamer now. Much smoother off the line, much more midrange torque and it REALLY scoots once you pass 5k. You get on it and it GOOOOOOOES...

And it is so smooth. No doubt because BMW and JCW engineers worked together on this. Very high quality conversion. I'm very pleased.

So I then added on my Madness intake, and of course the SC sound is even better (louder, earlier) now that the SC is kicking in at lower RPMs. The funnest part I think is that the increased low/mid torque allows me to really ram through the corners and come out spinning tires and accelerating. I have the ALTA rear bar so the car is kept very flat -- virtually neutral cornering, or maybe VERY SLIGHT oversteer. My only complaint before was the engine couldn't really accelerate hard as the rear end began to snap gently back in line coming out of a hard corner. Now it does with ease.

Keep in mind it was about 100 degrees F here today in Nor Cal (40-ish C) so I'm sure the heat was sucking up some power.

Oh, and the dreaded "stumble" in 1st gear appears to have disappeared too!