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because fuel should never ever be in contact with the coil and thus no connection should ever be made. But you're talking to a guy who used about a dozen of your writeups and has only had a Z two years. I'm an engineer with a pretty good knowledge of cars, electronics, etc, but the guys proposing it have dozens of times the Z-specific knowledge I do. Ethanol is corrosive to plastic, rubber, brass, zinc, lead, and aluminum, but if it's eating its way into the coil circuitry the injector should be shorted forever and ruined since the coil would be firing through a pool of ethanol. Not having a potential present due to the mod & the car being off when the ethanol eats through would just mean you'd start the car and immediately short...I think. Ethanol also causes corrosion where different metals meet. It will shift aluminum from the fuel lines onto steel that contacts it, eventually clogging injectors, which would be my guess of how injectors fail (especially since we measure resistance and declare failure at significantly higher resistances --> says clogging to me), but I don't see how an insulated voltage presence would matter (unless there is some charge buildup that makes the corrosion more aggressive, but that would be beyond my understanding).
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