[Jepe]

Hello.

Guess you know the problem of trying to start a V8 that stood for a few weeks, and thus has empty fuel bowls, and has a mechanical fuelpump instead of an electric one. What you in fact do is using a small battery-powered electric motor to turn a huge engine which in turn operates a tiny fuelpump. In the end, your bowls are full, or the battery is empty, whatever comes first.
My question: my opinion is that the only thing you need is to be able to fill up the fuelbowls before you start, in which case the engine will start and run on the contents of the fuelbowl, meanwhile pumping fuel from the tank to the carb by the mechanical fuelpump, saving the battery. So, is it possible to fill a Holley-bowl in some easy manual way, other than by the fuelpump?

Regards, John.