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From the pictures in the instructions for the C2V kit, it looks easy enough to canabalize your existing antenna for its dipole, balun, and combiner, but that would ruin a perfectly good and respected antenna.
If you're going to buy the DB4e anyway, I'd try it alone and see what it does with VHF. I ordered a DB4e for my attic, ran the cable (75 ft or more of RG6), and since the cable was there, I dangled a dipole set to the lowest VHF channel I have here, and bam! 100% on both channels. UHF channels also come in in the 90+% range, with the one distant channel at 75% with occasional dropouts. I switched to a tiny UHF single bowtie (no reflector) I have laying around, and now I have 100% on all the local channels, including VHF, and 90% on the distant channel I'm trying to get.
Point is, if the signal is strong enough, the 'wrong' antenna can still work, presumably by brute force. At least in my experience.
The DB4e suposedly has some VHF gain, though low-VHF is probably out of reach, but you may get acceptable signals with it alone. If not, maybe you could put both on the same mast, and disconnect the UHF portion from the combiner and put the new DB4e into it instead. Worth experimenting a bit, I would think.
Makes me wish I had experimented more before ordering the DB4e, but now that the house is wired and the antenna is on the way, I'll install it and go for even more distant channels, and see what I can get. If I have to, I'll combine the indoor dipole with it for the two local VHF stations, but somehow I rather doubt that will be necessary.
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