That's a tough call. If you know you will stick w/ it, i would buy the higher end kit. I bought cheaper because i wasn't sure i would like racing, after racing a few times i was hooked & soon upgraded, i sold my old stuff for about half what i paid. started w/ investing 400 bucks so i only lost 200.00. I met a guy at my first race that had the best of everything, he raced a few times & just could not get the hang of it & has since quit. He had from my estimate about 1700 bucks invested now his stuff is worth about half that so he lost about 800 dollars. That's a lot more than i lost . My advice is if you don't know you will like racing go cheaper but if you're like most you will be hooked from day one.