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.

[yozef]

Went to toyota today. Guess what they do not have the mounting in stock. They have ordered it by air freight and should take a week to arrive. So Celica will be off hte streets for a week. Will take the opportunity to fit the front M's brake pads I just bought and maybe fit the 4-1 exhaust header which has been lying in the garage for months now.

I was thinking to put back the catalyst as well as in my opinion there is not much difference without it except for the noise level.

One good thing about the mount is that it only costs $42 and about the Toyota dealer is that he is stocking TRD parts as well.