New Member who REALLY needs all the help you guys can give

Hey there I was just surfing around trying to get any intell possible about the install I have been thinking about for a lil bit now, browsed this site for a few and figured it would be a great place to get some good advice as to what I am thinking of doing, I hope to meet alot of you guys and girls that frequent this site and REALLY hope to gleam a plethora of insights into what is what and how it should be done, I have never done an install myself and am really looking forward to learning how its done, as I REALLY would like to get rid of the stock system I am forced to cope with as it is currently (I REALLY MISS MY BASS!!!) Thanks in advance for all the help I am given from all of you audio masters

 

K after looking at a few other posts in the introductions I gather that it would be a good idea to mention what it is that I am working with for this first install

Car : 1998 Mazda Protege LXi (My Daily Driver)
Head Unit : Pioneer DEH-P7700MP
Fronts : Pioneer TS-G1341R
Rears : Pioneer TS-A6871R
Subwoofers : (2) Pioneer TS-W301R
Amplifier : (1) Sony Xplode 1652Z (I have heard bad things about sony amplifiers but I can't seem to get rid of it so I guess I gotta use it)

Other than that I am thinking about doing a 3/4" MDF Sealed dual sub enclosure myself since I want to learn how to build boxes anyways and I have some expierence working with wood and fiberglass..... wish I knew how to make one from Plexi, but that'll be another project altogether

So lemme hear what you think...

 

thanks for the encouragement, I REALLY need all of that I can get at this point, cuz I am more than a little sketchy about doing it myself at this point as I have only seen it done a couple times before now and at this point I am just trying to figure out some things that are VERY basic, for one, I have no idea how to get to my front door speakers to switch them out, last car I had was an 86 honda accord so all I had to do is pop the speaker guards off and unscrew, but this mazda has flush mounted speakers, which means I can't just pop and swap.

I have heard that fords use a special tool to get the door panels off and I am a little leary that since mazda is owned by ford the same might be the case for me, but I have no idea at this time, or else I would have already switched those crappy paper cone speaks out... After that I need to figure out how to get the stock headunit out of the dash (The Right Way) and figure out how exactly I should go about running the wires for the subs and amp, then I should be golden for the moment