Thanks man for all the help. Appreciate all the replies. I did ask kymco to call me back and my service dept at dealer to figure out how to make it faster. They never got back to me and wanted like 80 bucks for 10 minutes work. Did it myself, learned, and plan on trying to do my own maintenance, except maybe let them do the brakes.
I would recommend this scooter to anyone who wants a moped legal scooter in kansas since the honda mets and ruckus are not restricted but tagged as motorcycle.
But for the money difference I think a used carb type kymco might be better fit for most-- i just wanted fuel injection so i would avoid screwing with carbs and for easy starts.
Total mods-- replaced variator drive boss face from restricted to smooth-- 7 bucks shipped, removed screw on throttle free, and replaced stock 7 gram rollers with 6 gram sliders-- 23 bucks shipped-- total cost to de-restrict 30 bucks-- well ok, 45 bucks for an electric impact and 17mm impact socket.-- 75 bucks. Still cheaper than one service from dealer and now have my own tools.