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...you make lemonade.
Conversely, when life gives you a trashed Nissan SR20DE engine, you make a coffee table. Previous owner inadvertently installed a blown engine into his commuter-use B13 SE-R and promptly gave up on it. I pulled the engine to swap in a 30k JDM unit, and just stripped the old engine down to its base components, cleaned everything up and created this! I cut the head and valve cover in half to create a semi cross-section kind of deal. I'm pretty happy with the result overall!
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/205_zpsa36117c3.jpg)
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Conversely, when life gives you a trashed Nissan SR20DE engine, you make a coffee table. Previous owner inadvertently installed a blown engine into his commuter-use B13 SE-R and promptly gave up on it. I pulled the engine to swap in a 30k JDM unit, and just stripped the old engine down to its base components, cleaned everything up and created this! I cut the head and valve cover in half to create a semi cross-section kind of deal. I'm pretty happy with the result overall!
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/205_zpsa36117c3.jpg)
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/551955_473171136036965_1220856967_n_zps24840824.jpg)
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/59945_524351577585587_1524549366_n_zpsc183028f.jpg)
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/tumblr_mgp361klAQ1qkvwwyo1_1280_zps486b74a4.jpg)
![](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y6/Bubs360/tumblr_mgp361klAQ1qkvwwyo2_1280_zpsfb4d8338.jpg)
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