I've had better luck with neon green myself. I performed some calculations and I got about a 576.31% increase in heat transfer ability after I slathered on some neon green latex paint! Just a thought! ^^
I guess you could just strip the paint with thinner, but the problem I forsee is protecting the bare metal afterwards without coating it with something that's going to insulate it. I suppose you could galvanize or annodize the rad, but that would probably be expensive... Clearcoat would probably insulate it also. Metallic paint? What is the primer coating that jets use? Maybe you could use that, I think it's non-insulative... Maybe I'm wrong. Hmmm =T