| Each dealer will receive one kit to be put on a Demo Cooper S. After that kit is alloted, the kits will be placed on backorder until such time that a STOCK (not a couple of orders) can be supplied to each dealer. So calm down and stop whining.
Whining does not make the kits come any faster, calling MINIUSA is pointless as they have absolutely no control over how many kits they receive, only how they are distributed. And the process I have seen so far is as fair as can be asked for. Save the customer service line for those whose problems can actually be solved.
Answers to the previous questions:
1. The head is new. By law, any part that is remanufacturered must be disclosed to you prior to it's installation.
2. You can "really insist" by paying the $1000 core charge on top of the $4500 and you can keep your cylinder head and supercharger (or $500 for one or the other).
3. The exhausts are chucked as scrap metal (saving that 50lbs of scrap is beyond me). The superchargers and cylinder heads will be sent back to BMWNA for examination and refurbishing for use as warranty parts and/or sold as reman'd units to dealers, unless you pay the core and keep it. And NO they will not go back to the factory to be installed in new Cooper S's (cause I know it's gonna be asked sooner or later). The myriad of laws that would be broken by doing that one would take a year to compile.
I'm beginning to wonder if my discussions about this kit with customers in the showroom and reading here on MINI2 are dealing with milk on the floor, or parts for a car.  | 
