Well, I found a good deal and decided that the dead sammy needed more qualified hands than mine...
I picked up Bioniconion's 93 Tracker as a new project for me and my son to build up and the sammy is going to my fabricator friend. His plans for the sammy include front and rear 4 links, coilovers, the Iron Duke engine swap, 33" Trxus radials and a full exo cage, all this just for starters! LOL!!!
My plans for the onion Tracker are a little tamer: First, get it running(has a fuel problem that needs straightened out). It's already got a 4" body lift, the floorboards are hammered back and the wheelwells are trimmed. I'll be doing a strut mount flip, removing the swaybar and at first adding some coil spacers(anyone know where I can pick up some 1.5" coil spacers cheap?). Then it will be getting some 15x8", 3.75" backspaced steel rims wearing 32" Swamper TSL Radials. Depending on how much I end up having to spend to get it running, I'll only have less than $1200 in it by this point, counting the cost of the rig!!!
Once that's taken care of, then it's off to my friend's shop for some armor plating. Those plans eventually include front and rear bumpers, winch mount, skidplates, rocker guards and a rollcage, as well as a lower exo-cage/brush-guard/tubular fender flare setup... Materials are free as he has access to a huge scrap pile of steel! It would also be nice to eventually add a suspension lift, T-case gears and a locker, but that's much further down the road.
My son is really looking forward to helping me work on it in hopes that he will get to drive it some time... If I get it up and running quick enough it might make it's debut at GonZukin! I'm hoping to make it there anyways with at least my 90 tracker...