Getting ready to start my 3.6L conversion project. I'm starting with a '71 914/4 but have already 914/6 dash frame that I will be using. Definetly going to have the ignition switch on the dash instead of the steering column and picked up a nice early 911 switch w/ Porsche key for that purpose.

My question is - is it possible to have the door/truck locks modified to accepts the early (small style) 911 key, or do I have to accept the fact that I will need to use 2 keys for the car?

Thanks a lot for your advice.

Mike

Certain years... yup.

Thanks Eric - as usual you are a fantastic source of info.

Have a good one.

Mike

Happy to help. I got these for both my 71, 911 and my 74 914.

You may have trouble with the shorty. I'd recommend keeping all the 914 stuff and looking for a 70-?? 911 or a 914-6 tumbler. Then you keep all of the keys the same.

Sorry, but my eyes aren't what they used to be. What's "shorty" about one or the other of those two keys?

Nothing.

From the original post...

I re-keyed the 911 ignition switch on mine to accept my 914 key ...

http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?showtopic=82045

Andy

Sounds like his is a very early 911 switch. Those keys are quite a bit different. Like this:



Get out the reading glasses Skip. That's a shorty.

Never mind, I just re-read & realized you mean the real early 911 key. I don't think you can make it work in 914 locks.

1970 through 1980 are all the same (at least on my cars).