It's a good father son project that doesn't have to break the bank. You get to work together on wire sizing, wire routing, component placement, and possibly box building.
Decide if you are going to keep or ditch the seat in the extended cab. If you are keeping the seat that limits your area to behind the back seat, under it, or under the front seat. If you ditch it you have that whole area to work with. You'll end up purchasing an amp, a subwoofer/s, and a box to place the sub in.
Wiring: You'll run a heavy gauge 12V wire from the battery to the amp - good idea to fuse it near the battery. You will need another heavy gauge wire from a ground to the amp. Finally you will run a small gauge 12v wire from the back of the radio to the amp - this is your remote on that turns on the amp when the radio turns on. Many aftermarket radios have this lead in there wiring harness or you can piggyback into the power antenna lead. That takes care of powering the amp, now you just need to get sound back to it. The most typical is you'll run a set of pre-out style leads from the back of the radio to the input of the amp. Check that your radio is capable of this - now days even medium price radios have front, rear, and sub pre-outs.
As far as components go - you can get real crap or really decent stuff - all depends on how much you want to pay. Make a budget for the amp, speakers, and box, and go from there.
This was very over simple and short, but hopefully it gave you the basics to think over.
This post was edited by Koolaid at 06:58:00 12/05/11.
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