Help Identifying These Wheels

[TheJDMan]

The trick is to count the spokes. The WC3 and GW3 are both 8-spoke. The VR3P is a 6-spoke (designed as such so that it could work in 6-lug Dodge Viper applications).



And then to tell the difference between the WC3 and GW3, the easiest thing to look for is the I-beams along the edges of the GW3 spokes. (The WC3 was designed before we had figured out how to make the I-beams.) There is also a slight difference between how the spokes meet the rim register.

Not being argumentative here but the WC3 has exposed bolts where the GW3 has hidden bolts. The first pic in the OPs question has exposed bolts making them WC3s same as mine.

[Forgeline Wheels]

Not being argumentative here but the WC3 has exposed bolts where the GW3 has hidden bolts. The first pic in the OPs question has exposed bolts making them WC3s same as mine.

Most of our wheels (including the GW3) can be ordered with either exposed or hidden hardware. The only exceptions are the few wheel models that have a steep chamfer along the face of the rim register. We need a flat surface against which to mount an exposed bolt head, so an angled surface on a chamfered rim register requires a hidden fastener from behind. As long as the register has a flat surface, then we can do either.

But the WC3 and VR3P are both older designs that correspond with an era when exposed bolts were more common. And the GW3 is a newer design that was created when hidden hardware was becoming more popular. So you're certainly more likely to see WC3s and VR3Ps with exposed hardware and to see GW3s with hidden hardware. But that is a function of changing tastes over time, not design limitation.