ok, took the amp to a fosgate dealer today, they checked it out and its fine. they even printed me out the manual for it(30ish pages) for free and dint charge anything to look at it. they offered to check the usual, power, ground, RCA's,(again, no cost.) turns out its my signal wire.... freaking awesome! does anyone happen to have a wireing diagram for the Volkswagen Monsoon system??
hooked the amp up anyways and just jumped power from the power lead and it plays fairly well. not quite as good as my friends amp, but does a hell of a good job for an amp only 8X8 ish. rated at 500W bridged at 4 ohm or 250 at 2 ohm to each channel and i think its 175 at 4 ohm to each channel.
Matt