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Originally Posted by 3rdgear
So is the ak in red or white mode without the wireless kit  |
If you don't have the wireless kit you have no wireless button allowing you to toggle between 'white mode' (quiet sound | inner exhausts exhaust flow) and 'red mode' (racy sound | four exhausts exhaust flow).
Then you gotta make up your mind before installation:
- do not touch the welded blocking plate of the connecting pipe (which somehow appears to have the shape of a flower pot):
= no exhaust flow through the outer exhaust pipes - visible difference between the tips of the pipes (inner pipes get dirty - outer pipes remain ± clean)
= same effect as white mode with the wireless kit, but that's a permanent feature (no possibility to switch to the 'red mode' effect to spice up the sound);
- remove the welded blocking plate of/off the connecting pipe:
= exhaust flow through all four exhaust pipes - all pipes look the same (dirt)
= same effect as 'red mode' with the wireless kit, but that's a permanent feature (no possibility to switch to the white mode effect when you want to tone down the sound).
For those who opt for the wireless kit, the connecting pipe supplied with the Akra axle-back becomes a redundant part, because replaced by a special connection pipe containing the butterfly valve layout.
For those who do not opt for the wireless kit and intend to remove the welded blocking plate of/off the connecting pipe (which voids the warranty, according to the Akra terms and conditions): see 00:47-00:48 of the video below:
It seems that with the Akra of the forum fellow in the first post, they opted for a compromise: they did not remove the welded blocking plate of the connecting pipe, but drilled a hole (or several holes) in it.