You might want to apply whole-disk FileVault 2 after the install, so makes sense to remove FileVault 1 first anyway...
Better safe than sorry ...
Sounds like FileVault 2 can encrypt a live disk in the background, which will remove the pain of applying it ...
FileVault 1 required as much free disk as you were encrypting, so if FV2 is the same (I suspect it isn't) then that might be a gotcha to watch out for; if you are low on free disk space, you may not be able to turn FV1 off / FV2 on (if FV2 has the same free disk requirements)