Car will see lots of street use with drag days thrown in.

A short block is just the begining of your list of needs. Hard to combine your comment that car will see lots of street use, dependable, and cut a 10 second ET. Besides keeping it running cool water temps, everything behind that engine has to be able to hold up, then you have to hook it to the street.

Many here with track cars try to do this. Be prepared to spend 10-12k on your set up, not even considering the SFI stuff your going to run. then it has to tech to run those times.