My daily driver 1986 El Camino is getting new shoes. After 320,000 miles new wheels and of course new tires.
My current wheels are great for the ease of cleanup. A quick wipe with a wash mit and they are done. I love them for that.
This is the current wheel on the car.
This is a one of my old snow tire wheels. These are factory OEM wheels. GM painted them. You can see the over-spray of the lighter silver on the Grey. It is obvious GM used some sort of stencil to spray the silver.
This is what is going on the car next. I have the new 15 inch "beauty rings" and the center caps from the old wheels will swap right over.
These are right from the powder-coater. They are true and ready for paint. I want to spray the Grey parts without spending the time to mask off everything. For the paint to stick I suspect the powder coat will need to be etched and then sprayed with wheel paint with a hardener.
Now for the question. How can I reasonably make a stencil that fits the 3d shape of the wheel. It that reasonable or just a pipe dream. I was trying to avoid the time to tape off the wheels. If the consensus is jut tape them off I will do just that. There is a local wheel shop that will paint them with the proper paint.
What do you think?