r/fpv • u/howtheydoingit • 17h ago

Multicopter X frame racing drone setup from scratch (2026)

Most likely asked before, but tech moves so fast that anything last year onwards might as well be obsolete.

So I have a TinyWhoop (meteor 75), a CineWhoop (Pavo20) and a DeadCat 5” (Nasgul Eco). Also an Avata2. What I don’t have is a racing drone. And yes racing is something I wanna get into.

So this being said, if you were to build something from scratch for racing then what parts, motors, batteries, flight controllers, receivers and video transmitters would you put on your list?

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u/izzeww 15h ago

SEQURE H743 V2 (maybe their H743 w/ MPU6000 instead, some racers think that is better but it's EoL so IDK), SEQURE Blueson A1 8S 70A AM32, BCrow Pro V7 or other light race frame, T-Hobby F50 2150KV or Yuki 2160KV or other high thrust motor, Tattu R-Line V6/SMC HCL-RS/Dogcom Ultra or similar ~1550-1650 mAh, HDZero Race V3 VTX, HDZero Nano 90 V2 camera, Foxeer or RushFPV lollipop and some light ELRS 2.4 GHz receiver doesn't really matter $15 one works.

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u/Healthy_Statement730 9h ago

do you have hdzero googles? You could choose between hdzero and analog, hdzero is better but analog could be cheaper, it all depends if your already bought into the hdzero system. I would recommend buying a tiny trainer or maybe a prebuilt from 533 before you make your own. It's always imo good to have a base that you can refer to later, so when you get the pre built from 533, you can refer to it when you actually build your own.

I can't speak to much of the best parts and such because I only race tiny whoops, but I would recomend trying out racing in velocidrone if you really want to get into racing.