I’m working on a new project, it’s going to be a street/race board and for the love of god, I can’t find an enclosure anywhere. I need it to be around 30-28 inches long and 8-ish inches wide. Does anybody know where I can find this?
@Linesflag is right. I really wish I started making fiberglass enclosures a long time before I did.
Also, unlike making batteries or decks or trucks or wheels, the barrier to entry is very very low and you can practically just make one if you want to, cost effectively. It’s not cost effective to make just one set of trucks or wheels or just one deck or just one battery.
Fiberglass over foam buck works fine, you can also build the enclosure out of cardboard and fiberglass that. Cardboard method benefits more from a vacuum bag setup.
Make a foam or wood block roughly the size of you battery + ESC, cover it in smooth tape, coat it in a separating agent (mold release, or if you want to be cheap, paraffine wax from candles works too), get a non stick base (trash bag works too in a pinch), then lay up a few layers of glass fiber and coat it with epoxy. Makes for a sturdy, albeit not very pretty enclosure.
If you want to step up your game, a vacuum pump will enable you to make nicer and lighter ones. Also read the aforementioned threads, lots of great info in there and for a few more bucks your results will improve drastically.