Firstly. Most modern shocks are pretty good and often there are sets for sale on here or eBay. Just make sure the seals are ok and the shafts are straight. Most brands like tamiya, losi, associated etc are perfect. Be aware that with aftermarket shocks you will need to order the right front shock tower from Fibrelyte as the standard mardave front shocks were quite long. Fibrelyte do various front and rear towers for the car. A lipo should fit just fine. The main issue is the transmission. You can modify it to handle brushless but it depends how good you are at modifying parts too fit inside the standard gearbox. You can also consider a complete gearbox swap but because the rear wishbones and rear tower bolt onto the gearbox, that's not always that easy. Personally I would stick with the standard gearbox and fit a rc10 b4 diff and tamiya driveshafts as it's the most simple way to run brushless without reliability issues. Pm me if you need instructions to make the parts fit. Hope this helps.
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