Yup, clipping/pulling the red/purple wire allows the RPMs to go higher. It does loop back to the brick. My 2015 Super 8 which was maxed at 28 mph can now go 33 mph and has hit 35 mph on occasion on long stretches with the red/purple wire pulled. There are no hills where I live, so unaided (maybe wind-aided?). There is a lot of Internet myth out there but the best I can tell, with the restriction the Kymco CDI maxes RPMs at ~ 7500. Depending what you read and believe, with it clipped their is either no restriction, which has risk of blowing up the engine, particularly if traveling down a long steep hill or revving it to the max on the center stand... or I've read with it clipped the OEM Kymco CDI then reverts to a default 9000 RPM max. Specific to Kymco, there are really no threads out there that once the CDI is derestricted that the engine then blew up at some point. I came across 1 Kymco thread from a decade ago where a guy knew a guy with a Kymco whose engine blew up when derestricted and of course there were warranty issues. In that thread it was mentioned there was speculation the engine had a defect from the plant. Knowing a ton of Kymco owners have cut that wire and the Internet is devoid of posts about ruined Kymcos, I'm thinking the risk is limited.
