[sick472]

I have 3 "sitters". One has an Edelbrock, one QuadraJet, & One Holley. They will all take 10 seconds (or more) of cranking to fire-up after sitting for a few days. Two of them are manual chokes and tend to fire-up quicker if the choke is pulled where the QuadraJet (with a broken choke) really likes to have some gas poured down it to speed things up.

I have heard of someone on here putting an electric fuel pump in the line (alone with the mechanical pump, I think) to assist with this occurrence, but I have not wrapped my head around how to do it myself.