Every so often I find people describing someone's set up as full bolt-ons, etc...
This is my list of everything I would imagine would consist of full bolt-ons but I'm sure I'm missing something.

- Cat-back exhaust
- headers
- Heads
- Cam
- Intake
- CAI
- E-fans
- Pulley's
- Tune
- Rear end and Gears

What am I missing?

 

The list is good, but I don't consider heads, cams, gears, and intake manifolds as bolt ons. Basically anything that doesn't require draining fluids and exposing the internal passages of a drive line component I'd consider a bolt on.

 

I'm no expert, but I would agree with this assesment.

 

So an engine swap is not a bolt on? What about a Radix?

J/K

 

I guess my STS is a weld on then ...But, I know my 6.0 was a bolt-on

 

anything that is part of the engine assembly is a bolton

ported TB
headers
pulleys
cai
Tstat
exhaust

 

Here is my list as I have learned it in the past couple years:
air intake
headers
exhaust
tune
pulley
throttle body
T-stat
Torque converter
gears

 

Yea, welding it on is alot easier than tryin to bolt it on...

 

I'm glad you guys cleared that up because I was thinking like spoolin.

 

Drop:
-heads
-cam
-intake manifold
-gears
-torque converter(in another post)

Add:
-electric water pump
-throttle body spacer
-fuel rails + injectors
-throttle body (larger or P&P)
-thermostat
-exhaust
-Tornado

Then that's what are "traditionally" referred to as bolt-ons.