Osama - Does the £2500 also include the Stage 1 exhausts and air filter?
I found Stage 1 was a big improvement over standard. The engine can breath and it sounds so much better. It gave quite a hike in performance.
I was a little less convinced at first when I had Stage 2 fitted a few months later, but I've grown to love it. It has a deeper exhaust note and it does pull stronger. I've also gone CAT free headers, which made it louder still, but pushes it very very close to 105dB in the noise test at race meetings....so I usually fit dB killers to keep me under the limit - Still measured 103dB at Mallory Park - with dB killers!
You will be able to flick the back end out with gay abandon at junctions, or fishtail away from a standing start in the dry, which is very much fun. In the wet you really do need to be more careful as it will fishtail at anything much above the lightest of dabs on the throttle!!
I would recommend everyone fits Stage 1 kit, its brilliant.....and Stage 2 is definitely another step up - an excellent one!
Finally, the M3W can handle the hike in power as I've found out on the race track this year. My car has raced at Oulton Park, Cadwell Park, Mallory Park and been thrashed around Zandvoort, and as my confidence has grown its just got better and better and faster and faster!
