looks great. please post a side view pic of the whole car.

 

I would have purchased this from GM, too.

The GM clearcoat and silver paint were taken off in a chemical bath, paint-remover kinda stuff. Then bead blasted so the powder would stick better. If I had simply wanted a different color wheel the powder coating would have been $300 for the four. But they spent quite a few hours hand masking each spoke and the rim which really popped the cost up. They put satin black powder on the unmasked wheel then stripped the tape off, brought them back up to temp and sprayed a satin (not glossy) clear coat over the top.

The work was done by Magic Valley Protective Coatings, a local outfit. He's into hotrod trucks, but he went nuts when he saw the C7. Called his wife to come look at it, saying he was getting tired of working on trucks and they should get a Vette. Total cost for the two shots and masking was $622.40.

When I hand painted the similar look on C6 rims with polished spokes I think it looked better, but the glossy black I used looked worse. The satin black on these wheels looks better, although the blackness doesn't show well in the picture. On the other hand, the bead blasted spoke surfaces, with the non glossy clear coat looks pretty subdued. If I was starting over I would have tried to figure out how to polish the spokes (easy?) and rim (harder) before clear coating.

I should have checked with the GM website before buying the tires, still don't know what they recommend. I could not find an all season or winter tire in Z51 sizes in extended mobility. The "mobility" of 50 miles is near-useless in Idaho and I carry a C5-Z06 GM air pump so I put a set of Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 3 on it: stock sizes but NOT runflat. I hope I can stay ahead of a leak if I ever get one. I ran a set of non-runflats 30K miles, including two cross-country drives in the C6 without a problem.

Sorry, the whole car picture isn't posed very well, but you can see what the whole thing ended up looking like.



Billsee

 

Your wheels look nice. I have a quote of $1200 to do this from an AWRS franchise. Too high for me. Machining is a big cost since they need to develop a template. Skipping machining was $800 and body color was $120 additional.

 

This is
the look I wanted. This shows the plain Camaro SS wheel and my factory stock Special Edition wheel. The latter really pops.

 

Those look real good, way better than stock finish - I hope it catches on

Why the black bra?

 

I've been wearing a bra since had a 1969 Porsche 911. Hate paint chips. Notice also a bra on my wife's CX9? Hate chips even on it.

Had clear bra on 2006 Vette, OK when new but after 6000 miles it was pitted everywhere. So I went back to a bra. That's the GM bra, a pseudo-carbon fibre pattern rather than smooth.

Billsee

 

Well done in good taste..

 

 

Your car looks great with those wheels.

 

Love those! Great job! Well worth the $$