No, flooding was a shot in the dark guess.:D
Have you verified the distributor was put in with the #1 cylinder on the compression stroke?
If not, or you don't know they can only go one of two ways (right or 180 degrees off)
A quick way to check is to pull the distributor, turn the rotor 180 and drop it back in.
I think I found the problem....when I installed the electric fuel pump, my gauge was reading 5psi...just checked it before it was reading 25 psi....time for me to buy a pressure regularator
