[DeTomaso] Fuel Pump Question

[Art Stephens]

     While running at wide open throttle and emptying the fuel bowls,  wouldn't the engine just die instead of going lean?  It seems that it would die and then briefly start up as the bowl started to fill and then die again repeating the cycle as long as your foot was still in it?  Maybe you would be lean for an instant,  but then it dies?  If it was running that bad,  you would likely do something different and not continue to run it like that.  I guess if the pump was just a hair short of supplying enough fuel,  it could theoretically give you a lean mixture that would make it go like hell without going so lean that it stumbles?