I no of a test that was done and castol GTX came out the worst. my friend recently freshened up his engine(honda) and it has 280,000 miles on it. when we tooks the pan off and valve cover every thing looked brand new nice and clean no crud built up. he uses halvoline and runs it in all his race cars and swears by it...halvoline is just advanced autozone brand. I have also seen a handful of cars from people switching from non-synthetic to synthetic and having issues, then they switch back and problems go away.