THE WHY OF THE BUILD -
As I continue to practice racing I find it more exciting and engaging for me than freestlye.
I thought it time to make a 100% dedicated racing quad instead of the hybrid styles I've made in the past.
After seeing the amazing "Envy" Floss v2 build, and realizing I had never build a lightweight quad I knew that the Floss v2 was the one for me.

THE WHAT -

frame-

Hyperlite Floss v2 5 inch - needs no introduction
Mayday FPV Canopy by Phoenix 3d Solutions

 electronics - 

I wanted to make the build "future proof" and ready for BF 3.3 +KF as it continues to grow so I decided to place a Matek F722 STD at the core of the build.
I fell in love with the new series Matek products after they released the VTX HV which has been perfect for many of my builds. I like that the VTX HV its built to fit as a half stack, takes VBAT but puts out clean 5v and delivers great RF performance in my experience. The F722STD FC is truly feature packed. In-built camera control, DAC, F7 chip, great layout, ribbon cable integration with their FCHUBs... It's a great piece of hardware.

I first made the build with Betaflight blheli32 escs on the arms, and the FCHUB-vtx and although it flew amazing I couldn't handle the look of huge escs on skinny arms.

Time to switch to a 4in1...

I have had great success with Spedix ESCs before so I went with the new Spedix GS35 blheli32 4in1. This ESC provides s1-4, 2xVBAT, 2xGRND, and CURR through a harness. The speedix powers the VTX HV with VBAT, and sends current sensor readings to the FC. The VTX HV powers the FC and the FC powers the camera. This seems to provide clean power throughout the quad. There is a cap soldered to the battery pads on the esc through an 18 gauge wire extension.

This is a perfect frame for the FrSky R-XSR so thats what I went with. Its nice to have telemetry and smartport in such a dinky rx.

   powertrain - 

To keep things light I went with the Hyperlite Floss Series 2204 2722kv team series motors. These motors are the secret sauce on this build. They really blow me away. They are tiny and LIGHT but on such a light quad they really haul. The motors published weight is 20g with "short wires". Currently sitting above these little screamers are DAL 5050c bi blades. My goal is to have a very fast cruising speed at low amp draw, not needing to be above 55ish% throttle. The rest of the headroom is for reserves.

 camera - 

The Floss v2 with the mayday canopy by Phoenix 3d Solutions limits you to micro cameras - but there are some great micro cameras now and I went with the RunCam Micro Swift v2. I love RunCam cameras and I have been using the v2s historically because of the integrated osd if you need it. (this build doesnt need it but i still like the camera.)

FINAL IMPRESSIONS
Love it. Very light, fast, easy to work on, easy to fly, easy to tune, handling is ridiculously good.

Update: switched to lightweight hardware. Amazing how much weight screws take up. Just this switch took me to 224g from ~240g. That's a big reduction and the only downside is lightweight hardware is easy to strip out with a poopy Allen key - but that's easily fixed.

This gets me to 378g with battery on a 1400mah hv pack. Pretty nice weight. 398g with a 1300mah CNHL 100c normal voltage.