If you want to answer, please do,
But I figured it out,
it can't be done.
Not with that right muffler in the way.
There is only 2" between the top of the coil and the exhaust bracket, and the coil is at least 6" long!
I wish one of the people that said "it is sooo easy" would come and show me how! (or even post a video of you doing it, and teaching us....)
I not only took of the bumper cover and the side heat shields, but I removed the aluminum (aluminium for you Brits) structural bumper and it's heat shield too!
It didn't help for #4
(but it would have for #1, SO DO IT! it is two 16mm bolts!)
Here is a pic with all of that off
And a pic of the "problem coil" from the new vantage point
(actually it is just the engine heat shield, as I had already put that back on, but the coil is just past that sensor above the heat shield)
And I also considered dropping the rear 4-5", but I didn't because I didn't think it would help (as the muffler and bracket go down with the engine).
There is no way you can reach over the right muffler, but if that was removed, it might give some room from the back (IF you lowered the engine).
While under the car I looked at "what else needs to be moved" to lower the engine, and the suspension cross-member is one of the things in the way (it CAN be removed, but I was using those mounting points to hold the car up...)
So I put everything back together.
Thanks for reading this far,
If you have any suggestions or personal tips, I (and whom-ever else reads this) would appreciate it.
Paul