OK, only had my MPS 6 for a week, took it for it's first decnt highway drive this morning.
When I was overtaking I had the car in 4th, as the RPM hit about 3000 there was a terrible vibration and noise in the RHS of the engine bay. When I backed off all was normal again.
Took the car straight home and have startred fault finding. Removed the pod filter and MAF, cleaned the BOV and wastegate, cleaning the intercooler now.
I did some reading and the possibilty of engine mount failure seems to be thge culprit. On the RHS engine mount there is a rubber diaphragm under the mount itself. This is very easy to push in on, I reckon the fluid from this mount has escaped before I bought the car.
Ordered in some new mounts to see if it fixes the issue. I also noticed that the intercooler has been banging into the wastegate body, leading me to believe it is a mount failure as the engine is moving rearwards under load.
Taking this time to really go over everything and clean all electrics with contact cleaner and remove any carbon I find.
I am trying to remove the valve cover to inspect things but the wiring across the valve cover is very hard to remove. The is two large connections on the right of the valve cover as you look in the bay from the front. I cannot seem to unplug these for some reason.
Any tips on valve cover removal and disconnection of wiring over the cover ?
Mike