I'm trying to decide whether I buy shocks now-ish or in early spring. Probably not much chance for tuning before next spring and not much point in spending the money sooner than later. Aligning axles, adjusting/rebuilding shock mounts, and installing rear bumps are a MUST along with the shocks. Good enough has given me a year of broken shocks, it's getting done right.
Along with shocks & axle alignment, I would like to get my links all reconfigured to aluminum and to delete the bushings at the chassis, make sure everything is square and true and schrong, build new shock mounts around the new shocks with proper spacing and angles and such, and get rear bumps and a rear swaybar in so I don't kill these things. Other than that, some additional siren controls and tie-in and radiator mounting are on the short list. Not sure about rearend/tire carrier/bumper changes because I don't know what I want to do; I still want to rewire too, that's a big bite and probably at the bottom of the list.