I know nothing about the protos but the new race edition of the XT2 racer is from the box to the race track [:-] legal

Can someone tell me more on gs racing. Im looking at gs racing sorm cl-1

+1 for me. The 24.7 engine that comes with the XT2 is awesome and is actually fast, regardless of what people say. Get the right tune and your doing 40+ easily. If your LHS has parts for the XT2, I would get that. The XT2 has been out for awhile and has sold a lot, and thats for a reason.

the new 247 that comes in the XT2 is a 6 port?

when I had my old XT Deluxe with the 247 Pro, it spanked the snake snot out of a guy-i-knew's XT2, course...that could've been crappy fuel, poor tuning, whatever...

Do some further investigation!

No, RClynx was just referring to the 457 I have in my XT2. The 24.7 in the RTR XT2 is 3 port.

Xt2 4 sure

GS racing were a few years ago a solid club racer buggy with the original Storm.
However time passes and it became outdated.
GS turned to Claude Lechat, who has designed quite a few buggies, to design their 'new' Storm, hence the CL-1.
It had quite a few inovative ideas but didn't quite get GS back to where they wanted to be.
The pro version was designed outright to be a racer though unlike the X-terminator and protos, which were designed to be a beginner/basher buggy.
Like all maufacturers these days they produce cheaper RTR versions of their top line buggies.
Of the 3 you listed i'd get the CL-1. At leat you will have a pro-level upgrade path.

yep thats what were going with the cl-1

i would go protos. XTM is a hobby people car and not much support there either. Axial engines are the best bang for the buck. If you haven't driven a protos, you cant knock it. Its a very good, durable truck. A lot of option parts for it too.

we bought a gs racing storm cl-1 and its on its way

Cool, good luck with it!

I`d say Protos out of your list . Many LHS and websites are now carrying parts so parts support is covered . Axail engines rip and I don`t know any engine that hasn`t eventually needed a new front bearing . The Protos is easy to tune and good on many tracks with same setup it is a great choice for any beginner to mid level .

Oops , guess I should have read the last post .

All the .247's where 6-port. The only real difference between the pro and and standard version was the carburetor, and the pro had brass bushings on each end of the rod. The older standard version had a small cooling head, but they made the larger head standard on all versions shortly after it introduction, unless you bought an X-factor. And yeah, I've owned both, and actually took a piston/sleeve from a pro version and put into a friend's standard engine. And to be honest, you couldn't tell the difference between the two engines before or after the piston/sleeve swap. I ran the standard version for a while, and it felt just like my pro version. They are strong, robust engines no matter how you slice it. I think that RC-car magazine said once, "the .247 is the most trouble free engine, period."