Thanks. If the Alpine worked well, I would have just left it alone. Actually, if the lighting on the Kenwood wasn't so bright, I would have left that alone too. But now that I modified it a bit, I couldn't be more pleased. The Kenwood's VFD really compliments the empeg well and the red gel is almost a perfect match to the stock red empeg lens.

I think I can finally put down my dashboard pry tools for a while.