I had to add an electric pump when I first put the E setup on the car in '66. It would totaly run out of gas like you shut the key off when I hit 3rd gear with a totaly stock engine. The pump fixed that. I often wondered if owneres had this problem in '57?

Slumlord
I had the same problem when I made a hard run at wot going through the gears while running at wot 4 or 5 seconds at high rpm into 3rd gear the carbs would run out of gas and I would drift to a stop. Checked the usual ,fuel pump, float levels and fresh rebuilt carbs. I just learned to live with it by not making any hard high gear runs. Later I found the cure by accident. When I first put my E Bird together it was missing the trash can fuel filter and I had the stock single 4 barrel factory A/C fuel filter on the engine, this was in the early 70's and trash can fuel filters were very hard to find.
I kept looking for one because I thought they were neat looking. Much later I finally got my hands on one and installed it. Surprisingly my fuel starvation problem immediately was cured. Bottom line Ford put it on the engine for a reason.