displacement

Allways wondered and never known ! What makes a 2 litre for example ? The C36 engine was a 2.8 M104 bored out to 3.6 litres - what does that actually mean ?? Cheers :)

Is durability affected by displacement? And if it isn't anymore until which year was it supposed to be? I guess durability of 2.2 liter engine from 2008. containing 200 hp is not affected by the size of displacement but what about the engines from the beginning of 2000s? Some say that if...