[bullsnake]

Thanks for the post Carey!
I had a nice long talk with Travis DePew over at Rubber Duck today-heck of a great guy and seems to know his stuff! He is helping me find a transport for my '96 and I am going to basically address all of the things that you addressed in your post. I already have the HVAC upgrade done, as well as the shift boot. My truck has the wrap over the hood and attach to the airlift hooks front brush guard. The truck came with an AVIC N2 head unit with GPS and DVD-I don't get the disk changer of the later models, but I'm not a big stereo guy anyway.
I am going to do the cool head kit, wastegate, exhaust, suspension with the 2" lift, 12K half shafts, underbody protection and rock sliders, lockers, sound deadening material, and maybe a few other little tricks just to keep it interesting. The ABS/TT4 are actually features that I don't really miss, my previous off roader was a Defender 90 and my current sporty car is a Dodge Viper-neither of which have any traction control, ABS, or electronic assistance. My wife's Range Rover has HDC, ABS, and a slug of other off road wizardry that always scared the fleas off me the few times that we used it.

This should be a fun project!