Atogas gerät - anyone seen it on a Ghia?

[KG1965]

I bought this NOS tuning kit on the net. It's a VW engine tuning kit from the late 50's, and was for sale until 1962. It's a fairly simple kit, compared to a Judson Compressor, an Okrasa kit or a Mag compressor, but it did do something for your 30 hp engine. It not only improved your miles per gallon, it also improved the 0 to 100 km/h time with 3,5 seconds. Not bad for a kit that, in the fifties, costed 98,50 Deutsch Mark (compared to 249,50 Deutsch Mark for an Okrasa kit.)

I'm going to install it in my 1961 Karmann Ghia Cabrio, but was wondering if anyone has experience with this kit or has some more pictures of Karmann's with this kit installed?

On the samba there is also a pic of a Karmann Ghia with the kit installed.

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1958 Karmann Ghia Coupe
1961 Karmann Ghia Cabrio (sold)
1965 Karmann Ghia Coupe (sold)
1963 Karmann Ghia Type 34
1968 Karmann Ghia Type 34

[ejbouwmeester]

Hi....,

Ik heb een ghia uit 1960 (model 61). Weet jij of deze zou passen?

thnx
Erwin

[Tvättbjörn]

Do you have any detail pictures? The links do not work. Like to see the center portion next to the carb and how connects on the cylinder head side.

thanks

[FarmerBill]

I found this on a website a guy made about his superbeetle.

http://www.gerrelt.nl/atogas/index.htm?fbclid=IwAR...xHRk794CrM

It looks like it was some sort of kit that was supposed to pull in extra air using the engines own vacuum? Seems like you would get the same results with a bigger carb.

Here are a few from the classifieds.

https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=2417686
https://www.thesamba.com/vw/classifieds/detail.php?id=1968354