Steve Heath 2nd Edition maintenance bible for Chimaera
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Hi, I'm after a new or copy of the above publication, if anyone can help and/or point me in the right direction please.
eBay and Amazon seem to show as unavailable, I have tried sending a message to Steve Heath Publications which have a website but not sure if this is a genuine site?
They are advertising the manual for £40 for the UK market.
Can anyone advise me etc etc.
Many thanks
eBay and Amazon seem to show as unavailable, I have tried sending a message to Steve Heath Publications which have a website but not sure if this is a genuine site?
They are advertising the manual for £40 for the UK market.
Can anyone advise me etc etc.
Many thanks
I think I gave mine away ! JP450 said:
Hi, I'm after a new or copy of the above publication, if anyone can help and/or point me in the right direction please.
eBay and Amazon seem to show as unavailable, I have tried sending a message to Steve Heath Publications which have a website but not sure if this is a genuine site?
They are advertising the manual for £40 for the UK market.
Can anyone advise me etc etc.
Many thanks
I messaged the site too and got no response. I too was dubious of its origins, I bought one however and swiftly arrived on my doormat so can confirm it's legit. It's a no brainer compared to what folk are asking for second hand.eBay and Amazon seem to show as unavailable, I have tried sending a message to Steve Heath Publications which have a website but not sure if this is a genuine site?
They are advertising the manual for £40 for the UK market.
Can anyone advise me etc etc.
Many thanks
jojackson4 said:
I have a manual, signed by Steve himself. Might be tempted to sell it and plan my early retirement. It surely must be worth a fortune if the ebay item is anything to go on. 
When I bought my Chimaera some nine years ago now it came with a Steve Heath Bible. and I must admit to my shame I enthusiastically read it cover to cover..... as I turned the last page and only when I'd stopped laughing, I strategically filed it never to be referenced again.
Being charitable... as workshop manuals go it's next to useless, consider getting yourself a Range Rover manual instead, one from Haynes who are professionals in the field or better still the official Land Rover workshop manual which will cover the engine beautifully, then if you need help with the brakes/drive shafts ect a cheap used Ford Sierra manual Haynes off eBay will serve you well.
For everything else..... you have this forum!
Use Google correctly and every imaginable aspect of maintaining and improving your TVR Chimaera will be at your fingertips.... and with supporting images. At which point you'll realize just how weak, poorly compiled, badly laid out and irrelevant the Steve Heath Bible really is!
Other than that, and for a complete novice, the Steve Heath Bible makes an excellent but very overpriced door stop
I also believe Mr Heath had plans to create a manual on the LS engine conversions he offered for a short while, unfortunately his inability to complete a single one correctly put pay to that. As the que of understandably angry and very dissatisfied LS conversion customers became more vocal and went legal, Steve closed his TVR Trinket Website and skillfully removed himself from the TVR world.
Hardly an auspicious end to a catalogue of cock-ups, toy shop quality drop links.... and other such nonsense, these days his overpriced and hard to buy (thank God) so called 'Bible' at least serves as an accurate and fitting legacy of what he genuinely contributed to the TVR community. That aside I believe he was a lovely well meaning amateur enthusiast, I just guess he also thought that made him some sort of professional TVR specialist like Str8Six or Powers Performance
Bless
Being charitable... as workshop manuals go it's next to useless, consider getting yourself a Range Rover manual instead, one from Haynes who are professionals in the field or better still the official Land Rover workshop manual which will cover the engine beautifully, then if you need help with the brakes/drive shafts ect a cheap used Ford Sierra manual Haynes off eBay will serve you well.
For everything else..... you have this forum!
Use Google correctly and every imaginable aspect of maintaining and improving your TVR Chimaera will be at your fingertips.... and with supporting images. At which point you'll realize just how weak, poorly compiled, badly laid out and irrelevant the Steve Heath Bible really is!
Other than that, and for a complete novice, the Steve Heath Bible makes an excellent but very overpriced door stop
I also believe Mr Heath had plans to create a manual on the LS engine conversions he offered for a short while, unfortunately his inability to complete a single one correctly put pay to that. As the que of understandably angry and very dissatisfied LS conversion customers became more vocal and went legal, Steve closed his TVR Trinket Website and skillfully removed himself from the TVR world.
Hardly an auspicious end to a catalogue of cock-ups, toy shop quality drop links.... and other such nonsense, these days his overpriced and hard to buy (thank God) so called 'Bible' at least serves as an accurate and fitting legacy of what he genuinely contributed to the TVR community. That aside I believe he was a lovely well meaning amateur enthusiast, I just guess he also thought that made him some sort of professional TVR specialist like Str8Six or Powers Performance
Bless
ChimpOnGas said:
When I bought my Chimaera some nine years ago now it came with a Steve Heath Bible. and I must admit to my shame I enthusiastically read it cover to cover..... as I turned the last page and only when I'd stopped laughing, I strategically filed it never to be referenced again.
Being charitable... as workshop manuals go it's next to useless, consider getting yourself a Range Rover manual instead, one from Haynes who are professionals in the field or better still the official Land Rover workshop manual which will cover the engine beautifully, then if you need help with the brakes/drive shafts ect a cheap used Ford Sierra manual Haynes off eBay will serve you well.
For everything else..... you have this forum!
Use Google correctly and every imaginable aspect of maintaining and improving your TVR Chimaera will be at your fingertips.... and with supporting images. At which point you'll realize just how weak, poorly compiled, badly laid out and irrelevant the Steve Heath Bible really is!
Other than that, and for a complete novice, the Steve Heath Bible makes an excellent but very overpriced door stop
I also believe Mr Heath had plans to create a manual on the LS engine conversions he offered for a short while, unfortunately his inability to complete a single one correctly put pay to that. As the que of understandably angry and very dissatisfied LS conversion customers became more vocal and went legal, Steve closed his TVR Trinket Website and skillfully removed himself from the TVR world.
Hardly an auspicious end to a catalogue of cock-ups, toy shop quality drop links.... and other such nonsense, these days his overpriced and hard to buy (thank God) so called 'Bible' at least serves as an accurate and fitting legacy of what he genuinely contributed to the TVR community. That aside I believe he was a lovely well meaning amateur enthusiast, I just guess he also thought that made him some sort of professional TVR specialist like Str8Six or Powers Performance
Bless
I cannot believe anyone would endorse the book of lies:-Being charitable... as workshop manuals go it's next to useless, consider getting yourself a Range Rover manual instead, one from Haynes who are professionals in the field or better still the official Land Rover workshop manual which will cover the engine beautifully, then if you need help with the brakes/drive shafts ect a cheap used Ford Sierra manual Haynes off eBay will serve you well.
For everything else..... you have this forum!
Use Google correctly and every imaginable aspect of maintaining and improving your TVR Chimaera will be at your fingertips.... and with supporting images. At which point you'll realize just how weak, poorly compiled, badly laid out and irrelevant the Steve Heath Bible really is!
Other than that, and for a complete novice, the Steve Heath Bible makes an excellent but very overpriced door stop
I also believe Mr Heath had plans to create a manual on the LS engine conversions he offered for a short while, unfortunately his inability to complete a single one correctly put pay to that. As the que of understandably angry and very dissatisfied LS conversion customers became more vocal and went legal, Steve closed his TVR Trinket Website and skillfully removed himself from the TVR world.
Hardly an auspicious end to a catalogue of cock-ups, toy shop quality drop links.... and other such nonsense, these days his overpriced and hard to buy (thank God) so called 'Bible' at least serves as an accurate and fitting legacy of what he genuinely contributed to the TVR community. That aside I believe he was a lovely well meaning amateur enthusiast, I just guess he also thought that made him some sort of professional TVR specialist like Str8Six or Powers Performance
Bless
ala "one from Haynes who are professionals in the field"
Professional at making mistakes that can cause damage then denying it's their responsibility. Not content with that the quality of the Haynes in paper and printing has gone right down the crapper is short the books are rubbish in quality.
Classic Chim said:
I built my old fizzy using one, 1980 I think 
I loved that Haynes manual
I have or had a collection of them a lot of British bike ones plus a fair few car ones. Made the mistake of buying one for the Rover 75 and it's dreadfully poor in quality. Nothing like the quality paper and printing of say my BSA B31 manual. Autodata were better IMHO.I loved that Haynes manual
Is this the source correct, proberbly printed/bound book? Looks legit, but just checking.
http://www.shpub.co.uk/
http://www.shpub.co.uk/
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