No, no pics from the install or of the vehicle yet, sorry. I was working against the clock, as I got home late from work and didn't didn't pull the car into the garage until 6:30pm. I was trying to skip out of work early and be started by 4:30 but failed. As I mentioned, I finished with car on the ground and completed test drive by 11:30, including dinner and some "custom" work on the rear, so not too bad. With one repetition under my belt, and no "custom" work needed in the future, this would be a 3 or 3.5 hour job from car-up to car-down.
I'll probably start a thread in the suspension sub forum with some more info and pics in the coming days, as I don't want to hijack this catch-all thread with my stuff.
Regarding the "custom" comment:
1. I had to do some grinding on the big lower control arm hole, as it was out of round (elliptical) by a mm or two. The lower spring perch adapter was made on a lathe and obviously very round, but didn't fit the smaller minor axis of the "elliptical" control arm hole, so I spent about 10min per side making the lower control arm hole nice and round round and a good tight fit for the lower spring perch.
2. I had to figure something out for the upper spring perch, I tried modifying the stock upper perch/spring pad at first, but it turned out using the lower pad as-is worked quite well. It took about 15 minutes to figure this out.
3. I had to make some spacers for the lower shock mount, as the AST lower mounting eye was 10mm narrower than the stock mz5 unit. I made some spacers out of scrap aluminum I had laying around. 15-20 minutes?
Considering that this kit was a prototype for an older ms3 (not production-level parts), and I was installing it in a new mz5, I don't consider having to make a couple spacers and fiddle with spring perches unreasonable at all, and would definitely not hold it against AST. AST was great to work with (as has been my experience). They provided excellent service, quick email response, always willing to work with me and answer questions, dyno the shocks and provide the data/graphs, etc...