Wheel hopping, Excessive front left wheel hopping Options

[yozef]

I have been experiencing excessive left front wheel hopping on hard launches in first gear during the past months.

On another forum somone had suggested to check the shock as it may be dead, others have suggested a check the engine mountings.

Since then I have replaced the shocks with Koni adjustables and found out the fron engine mounting was dead so I replaced that as well.

However this did not help a lot and I am still heaving excessive wheel hopping on 1st gear hard launching.

Has anyone experienced this before, I do not think this is normal as I had never had such a problem before.

[darksecret]

I guess nobody cared to notice he's got an SS-II a 3,000 rpm launch won't hurt, i'm pushing around 170-180 lbs. ft. to the flywheel so I can't launch high, if I do more than 4,000 rpm my car tries to kill me. The 3SGE is similar except it puts out less torque and more horsepower either way 4,000 and above is not the best (unless you have slicks), not to mention the FWD Celica platform isn't the best for drag racing since it tends to be more balanced than other FWD cars (balance is good for autox and rally) leaving the front end pretty light making wheel hop an issue during hard launches.