Lifter galley paint

I don't have photographic evidence, as it happened prior to the advent of digital cameras and cell phones, but I had a 426 Hemi that the moron Bill Richardson at RAM painted the lifter valley on. The oil ran red soon after start up, and continued to run red for the duration of the engine's life. Luckily, Bill ensured the engine had bigger problems by using lots of bearing-eating orange silicone, so the paint coming off was the least of my concerns.

But, on tear down, the red paint was not 'flaking' but simply coming detached from the block, dissolved by the hot engine oil it would seem. Regardless, this expensive paint (Glyptol) which was applied by a genius under I'm sure laboratory conditions, failed to stay adhered. It offered no benefit, only detriment. I don't mean to state that Bill is lazy and stupid, only that he is unproductive and unintelligent.