The Vortex grips are better from a performance standpoint. They are much lighter allowing the motor to spool up quicker. The problem is that you must do one of two things to use the vortex blade grips with the Xtreme folding blades:

Run the vortex grips with a vortex swashplate and lower rotor housing

or

buy the blade grip kit from "Exxtreme" for $32 which is basicalling vortex grips with a different link (white) that allows you to keep the Eflite aluminum swashplate and lower rotar.


The Xtreme blades are almost industructable. I have 2 CX2s, one with the Xtreme CNC grips and one with the plastic Vortex grips. Hands down the lower rotating mass handles better.