**NEW** MPP "Flight Grade" Billet Front Upper Control Arms for Cybertrucks

[Nexus6]

Too bad you guys are not located in Southern California, with so many off-road testing grounds like Baja , Johnson Valley, glamis , ocotillo wells , Barstow … The aftermarket upper control arm industry for trucks/suvs is massive especially for off-road applications. From affordable tubular steel + ball joint options to heavy duty 7000 series aluminum upper arms with big 7/8 heim joints + 1.25” uniballs with stainless misalignment spacers the sky is the limit for all pick up trucks. I just hope all your testing and modeling is not based off track or street car specs and expected loading. Otherwise you’re gonna see a lot of bent or failed control arms with real world testing. Hard to model what forces a control arm will see when some customer mashes through a set of whoops out in the desert, trying to impress people. Maybe they have offset wheels or 37 inch heavy tires.? Maybe their cyber truck was launched in the air and now it’s nose diving into the ground so the forces aren’t coming where you think they are. Just saying, aftermarket suspension and upper control arm industry is so tried and true. Hope some lessons were learned from all that has been done already. Idk , maybe give someone like Camburg a call and have a chat about things ? Just based off all the long travel kits and vehicles I have modified for off-road use, I probably wouldn’t run that upper control arm. That looks like a beefier version of a model 3 track application control arm. Just sayin …. Test your trucks where the customers will be using them and how they will be using them. Set up your vendor tent out here with the rest of them in the desert on race day.

Edit : I run your control arms, lower arm uniball pivot replacement, sway bars, and shock packages on both my model 3s fyi. You guys know what you’re doing for track applications. But 4 my CT…. I’ll probably wait and see what someone like camburg, Kibbe tech, or others come out with for a truck. They’ve been doing that for many decades and the results speak for themselves.

I concur. I’ve got a Kibbetech Long Travel set up with 3” Kings on my 3/4 Ton Suburban “Chase Truck”. SoCal guys know how to run fast in the desert and rock crawl. Would love to see you guys run a CyberBeast with some of your mods at the King of the Hammers. That is the ultimate proving grounds. “Win on Sunday sell on Monday!”

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[WHIZZARD OF OZ]

Too bad you guys are not located in Southern California, with so many off-road testing grounds like Baja , Johnson Valley, glamis , ocotillo wells , Barstow … The aftermarket upper control arm industry for trucks/suvs is massive especially for off-road applications. From affordable tubular steel + ball joint options to heavy duty 7000 series aluminum upper arms with big 7/8 heim joints + 1.25” uniballs with stainless misalignment spacers the sky is the limit for all pick up trucks. I just hope all your testing and modeling is not based off track or street car specs and expected loading. Otherwise you’re gonna see a lot of bent or failed control arms with real world testing. Hard to model what forces a control arm will see when some customer mashes through a set of whoops out in the desert, trying to impress people. Maybe they have offset wheels or 37 inch heavy tires.? Maybe their cyber truck was launched in the air and now it’s nose diving into the ground so the forces aren’t coming where you think they are. Just saying, aftermarket suspension and upper control arm industry is so tried and true. Hope some lessons were learned from all that has been done already. Idk , maybe give someone like Camburg a call and have a chat about things ? Just based off all the long travel kits and vehicles I have modified for off-road use, I probably wouldn’t run that upper control arm. That looks like a beefier version of a model 3 track application control arm. Just sayin …. Test your trucks where the customers will be using them and how they will be using them. Set up your vendor tent out here with the rest of them in the desert on race day.

Edit : I run your control arms, lower arm uniball pivot replacement, sway bars, and shock packages on both my model 3s fyi. You guys know what you’re doing for track applications. But 4 my CT…. I’ll probably wait and see what someone like camburg, Kibbe tech, or others come out with for a truck. They’ve been doing that for many decades and the results speak for themselves.

All well and good......but where's your BRAND LOYALTY.?!?!?
'In the words of the great song writer, 'STAND BY YOUR BRAND'

CHEERIOS AMIGOS!!!!!

!nK

 

[BengalBoy]

Very cool looking for a "Jacked-Up" CyberTruck. Definitely exudes performance and lets face it, most of the time, the CyberTruck owners are looking to improve the looks and add an extra *WoW* factor to their individual rides. Very nicely done aftermarket performance part!

 

[2000prerunner]

I'm glad you mentioned Camburg.

And first of all - thanks for supporting MPP and running out products!

You'll notice a few things on an arm like Camburg's - first of all, this part needs to be removed from the car to adjust camber. That's a major waste of time, and any alignment shop would want to kill you if you brought them an arm like this.

Secondly, the arms use exposed spherical bearings. Great for race trucks that have regular maintenance. Not so great for daily driven silent electric vehicles. Once those joints start to wear out and creak and clunk, you'll be pulling your hair out and wanting to put back the OEM parts! Not a problem for an ICE truck with a loud exhaust.

Third - you'll see that those arms are simple "2D" shapes. They don't have any fancy contouring to them, which all of our parts can have due to the simple fact that we have a 5-axis CNC and put in the work to design and machine organic shapes that best serve the purpose. This is how we can offer complex parts at a lower price to a shop like Camburg.

In the case of our outer balljoint carrier, there are a lot of different shapes in that part that are necessary to properly align the balljoint to the path of travel.

Lastly - the Camburg arm has a specially designed outer spherical to allow for maximum articulation of the balljoint. This is especially important for trucks with short upper arms. One of the features of our arm is that we can offer different outer balljoint carriers - for example, if people start going really crazy and wearing out or bending tie rods, it's a simple upgrade to make a beefed up, no-compromises outer carrier with a motorsport joint rather than an OE tie rod. This would be a cheap upgrade and you could even swap back to the OEM ball joints (which would likely be quieter) if desired.

So while we're happy to look at other products and admit where we have shortcomings, in this particular case, I only see benefits to the features we've added to our arms compared to the standard "top of the line" offerings in the truck community.

We'd appreciate you giving our parts a try for off-road use. We're confident you'll have the same great experience you have with our track/road car parts. And if you ever have a problem, you can trust that we'll address the issue and fix it.

As the Cybertruck community "grows" and gets more aggressive off-roading, our parts catalogue will grow to meet the demand. We obviously are not going to be building full-out trophy truck parts where there is no market demand. That's just not good business.

I also highly doubt you're going to see any of the companies you mentioned building up any parts until the demand is established, and many trucks are out running around in the desert.

I'll finish by saying - a lot of thought went into the design of these arms. They were fully modelled along with the rest of the Cybertruck suspension, we checked every aspect of the design we could - including running way more travel than the OEM air suspension can run. It's been a massive undertaking making these - they are by no means just a quick copy/paste of our Model 3 or Model S arms.

True , the cyber trucks upper arm is much longer, so misalignment angle is not an issue for upper arm ball joint binding thus limiting travel. However ….
Incorrect I think it would be easier to unbolt the heim end and adjust camber / caster that way vs mpp plates . They are threaded so you have way more tunability in the threads you turn / out and you can also pull the upper arm left and right exactly for castor. Vs fixed steps in the mmp plates . Also they have sealed Uni ball options to guard from Weather. Even people like JD fabrication are starting to do this and ICON. Also, it’s not a simple 2-D shape. It is a full-blown CNC machine 7000 series aluminum part including lots of removed metal with machined “ribs structure “ just look:
https://www.camburg.com/products/ca...control-arm-kit-cam-310194-gry-cam-310194-gry

just saying not only do these people supply the aftermarket upper control arm industry for decades, but , they also build actual trophy trucks and whale on their vehicles mercilessly …discovering all kinds of things that solid works won’t in the model.… they will even redesign parts themselves based off customer input and feedback. Especially when some crazy Customer lands inside a giant ditch out in glamis and claims the part failed because of them. Nothing is stopping mpp from modifying a cyber truck and bringing it out to a “ race “. Probably would be the best sales strategy ever . silence all the haters and nay sayers by charging a set of whoops at 45 miles an hour like nothing. I mean, in real testing the factory upper control arm folds like a tin can and I’m sure those Tesla engineers are no dummies. But again a computer or a small roller jump in the parking lot , will only tell you so much. Gotta go test.

 

[2000prerunner]

All well and good......but where's your BRAND LOYALTY.?!?!?
'In the words of the great song writer, 'STAND BY YOUR BRAND'

CHEERIOS AMIGOS!!!!!

!nK

definitely loyal to a brand. But I think that brand might be Camburg

 

[WHIZZARD OF OZ]

definitely loyal to a brand. But I think that brand might be Camburg

Fair enough mate......my brand has always been VW/Porsche!
I owned 102 air cooled VW and a couple of Porsche cars from '81 to 2005. Started the Porsche 356 Australian Registry in '86, Making my cofounder Maurie Swanson the Prez! Well, the collection went OFF to Japan and other cities in Oz. My first car being a '75 Superbug that l sold after 15 years that has the claim as the highest number of Show wins for any VW in the World. Stock as a rock from factory, l bought it with ~23,000 kms and almost doubled that in the first year of ownership, when it achieved its first outright show win in' 82 then followed by '83, ( BANNED & Overturned),84,85, and finally for the last ever entry in 'The Day Of The Volkswagen' in Victoria in 1986 when l drove Lindsay Fox's brand new '75 Red Standard Beetle without any rego plates about 6 miles down to Albert Park Lake in an attempt to beat the Superbug..
We all know what happened .
What's happening now is my transition to Tesla and waiting on the CYBERTRUCK and CYBERCABs....l need a total of 4 Cabs.
Somehow History is repeating only with a different badge loyalty.
I still remain fiercely passionate about the VWs and in particular the 356 cars by Porsche.
Who wouldn't!?!?!

Enjoy your Journey. ...take a listen to 'Month Of Sundays SWEET CHAINS [ l am the Co-writer and producer for Studio Band SWEET CHAINS and l'm called !nK )

 

[SentinelOne]

Hi All, my 2 cents on MPP from my experience since 2019 and my M3P! Great Customer Service, passionate, dedicated, answered my stupid questions (thx Jesse), quality components, helped me find a local installer in CO that was qualified, etc. I've had nothing but great experience with MPP! My use case doesn't justify $1500+ for these items, aka im just a light off roader but if I won the lottery or was a major off-roader I'd be all in! I want their CT rims as well.

 

[BlueLightning]

Looks more promising than the stock one.

 

[Jacob]

I think I'm going to have to get these. Just because I love people that develop aftermarket products to make things more bad ass AND it LOOKS bad ass! It's a double win!

 

[resellpanda88]

when will this be available and will this void my warranty?

 

[MountainPassPerformance]

Just wanted to return here and let anyone who was on the fence know that our first batch of customer Cybertruck FUCAs is now on its way to the customers that ordered during the pre-sale, so if you are in here, thank you for your support! We can't wait to see these hitting jumps or rock crawling, or whatever adventures you guys throw at them.

As a side note, the pre-sale pricing for the Flight Grade CT FUCAs is still active, but will be ending next Friday, June 20. We didn't want it to be an abrupt surprise in case anyone was waiting until they were finishing the production process, so we figured we would pop in and let you know.

Thanks again, everyone!

 

[CYBERNR]

Is there an estimated time for delivery on this second round of UCA orders? Ordered mine have been eagerly awaiting for them for a bit now.

I Have a trip to the dunes this weekend was hoping to use them but I’ll just take it easy this time around

 

[MountainPassPerformance]

Is there an estimated time for delivery on this second round of UCA orders? Ordered mine have been eagerly awaiting for them for a bit now.

I Have a trip to the dunes this weekend was hoping to use them but I’ll just take it easy this time around

Happy to report that our next batch is on the machine as we speak, and will be going into anodizing by next week. Once that's done, we're shipping them all out!

We appreciate your enthusiasm very much! I hope you and the other customers who ordered them will be as happy as the existing users are already

 

[MountainPassPerformance]

We thought we had tested the Cybertruck to its limit, but our man Jerry (@cyberoffroad_ on IG) took it upon himself to be the unofficial test-pilot for the "Flight Grade" name. In case anyone was wondering about the quality of these FUCAs, Jerry has put them through more torture testing than anyone we know, and is still going strong with no issues!

 

[devdrone6]

Does he have paddle tires on the rear, or my eyes deceiving me?

We thought we had tested the Cybertruck to its limit, but our man Jerry (@cyberoffroad_ on IG) took it upon himself to be the unofficial test-pilot for the "Flight Grade" name. In case anyone was wondering about the quality of these FUCAs, Jerry has put them through more torture testing than anyone we know, and is still going strong with no issues!

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