Stereo & Electronics - Stereo: Don't know what I'm doing

Hello, I have a 97 Z28 with what used to be a Bose Gold system that I've been working on for about the last year. Now I'm at the stereo and I don't know what to do.

The car now has a Kenwood Excelon head unit, that was in the car when I got it. The door speakers worked, but didn't sound so good any more. The sail panel speakers were gone. Today, I put in Kenwood door speakers, and new Kenwood speakers in the sail panel's. The problem is the door speakers sound good and work right, but the sail panel speakers are muffled, like all they are getting is base not loud at all. I checked all the wiring and rechecked, and when I run it from left rear to right rear, it moves but no sound other than base. The car still has the factory amp, in the passenger side rear hatch, do I need to ditch that or wire the sail panel speakers directly to the head unit?? I'm a radio idiot any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ok so I guess I should have done a search first, I now know the sail panels only do mid base. SO do I by pass the amp some way, just wire all four speakers to the head unit with no amp? Or can something be done at the amp?

http://www.ls1.com/forums/f50/can-ya-bypass-monsoon-amp-19917/

http://ls1.com/forums/f50/i-have-monsoon-wiring-diagrams-you-20319/

Maybe these will help! I had no idea and took mine to a shop, good luck!

Outstanding, thank you. I was able to get some info from these links and bypass the factory amp and have all 4 6.5 speakers working. Now, I have another question, is the amount of heat a head unit generates, directly related to how loud you try to turn up the volume? When I have it turned up loud, the head unit gets real hot, like so hot you can't put your hand on it for long at all. So if I keep the volume lower, will it not get so hot?

Outstanding, thank you. I was able to get some info from these links and bypass the factory amp and have all 4 6.5 speakers working. Now, I have another question, is the amount of heat a head unit generates, directly related to how loud you try to turn up the volume? When I have it turned up loud, the head unit gets real hot, like so hot you can't put your hand on it for long at all. So if I keep the volume lower, will it not get so hot?

There several factors that effect the temp of a head unit, volume level is one of them as the internal amp doesn't have good airflow in the dash, lack of air flow in the dash, the cd spinning in the drive generates heat, the heater core in dash can radiate heat up into the dash and the sun itself in making the car hot inside all contribute.