<VV> Castrol Syntec / ZDDP / SL

Chris & Bill Strickland lechevrier at earthlink.net
Fri Mar 18 17:20:44 EDT 2011


>This is for Castrol Syntec 10w30 ... "Exceeds ... ILSAC GF-5, GF-4 and GF-3 and/or API SN, SM and SL"
>  
>

Therefore it is one of the "Energy Conserving" oils that is not Corvair 
recommended, as is typical of most 10W-30 oils aimed for the mass market 
these days.

>amount of ZDDP levels in the Castrol Syntec 20w-50 classic  
>formulation is a minimum of 1200 ppm.
>

And so this begs the question, "Is this "20w-50 classic" still the same 
formulation that is currently in the market place?"

Bill Strickland


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