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I was looking into installing the Alpine unit you are talking about... I wanted to install the display "remotely" to make it more user friendly. I spoke with an engineer at Alpine and he told me they had not had any success in doing so, because with a longer display cable there is too much electrical interference.
I ended up installing the Pioneer DMH-C5500NEX as show in the picture... no dash cutting required for this particular install (ver 1.0). I still need to install the bezel around the display, and make a few other tweaks.