Thanks for sharing your pics, it looks like a great day for it!
What do you think of the austin yellow? Personally im not much of a fan (I've only seen it on E46 M3's) and I've noticed E46 M3's in this colour generally have lower resales...
Re the new strut brace, apparentley it weighs 1.5kg and utilises an adhesive process to mount it and is much stiffer then an aluminium bar. Surely those M division engineers know what they're doing now (bmw are arguably the world leaders in CFRP innovations) shame on you!