The storm is great buggy. Corey (crashin73) talked me into getting mine. This is a pretty strong buggy. After racing three weekends w/ mine, I've broke one arm, hingepin holder, bent one ackerman plate, and stripped the gears in the rear diff. And this was a used buggy! The arm was cracked prior to running it too.
I had picked up an extra ackerman plate in a bag of extra parts of eBay, so I put the two ackerman plates together when I bent the first one, should be bulletproof now.
I plan on picking up either the Dynamite or Storm Pro shock towers (don't know if I want the red of the Dynamite parts).
This is a great first buggy. I have learned a lot with it.
Some people run either an Ofna 083 or 086 as a quieter pipe, but I have no experience in a different pipe.
Corey didn't list it, but you will also want to upgrade the servos.
Good Luck!
I'll try and post some pics tonight.
Matt