What does it mean if a car has a 3.1L engine?

Question

I am trying to find a good used car, but I don't know much about cars. I found cars with 4.3L engines and 3.8 engines but I don't know what that means really.

Answer 1

A 3.1L engine means the engine size is 3.1 liters,or 3100 cc's. This is the combined volume of all the cylinders in the engine. The higher the number,the larger the engine. A large 4 cylinder would be a 2.5L. A large 6 cylinder would be about 4.0L. These are very generalized references,but this will get you up to speed. Remember that the larger the engine,generally the higher the power level.

Answer 2

In the simplest terms they're referring to the size of the engine displacement in Liters. Basically what is the interior volume of the engine.

4.3L = 4.3 Liters

3.8L = 3.8 Liters... etc...

The engine size/type can mean a whole lot in terms of how the car drives. In simple terms though ( for someone who admits to not knowing much ) just understand that generally speaking the bigger the engine the more power it has, and the more gas it uses.

Answer 3

It refers to the "cubic inch displacement" If I remember correctly, a 4.3 is a 307 engine. A 5.0 was a 350 block and so forth