In pylon autox (med-speed), you can get away without any additional cooling (auxiliary trans cooler) since you're only on the course for ~30-45, maybe 60 seconds ata time, so it doesn't realy get too hot. in fact, adding an auxiliary trans cooler would be adding weight to the front of the car and that's exactly where you don't want to be adding weight (contributes to understeer). For many years in serious competition autox, I only ran a small aux-trans cooler, and eventually removed it only for the weight reduction.... remember.. every little bit of weight reduction all adds up to more weight loss.. = faster (lower) timed runs.. looking for that every little bit of competitiv edge possible.. especially on a national levl of competition.
In road course lapping sessions, or even solo-hi-speed road course events, its a good idea to have an auxiliary trans cooler since you're out there for longer periods of time pushing hard... you do want to protect the trans fluid from excessive hi-heat. If you'd really want to, you could eliminate that extra cooler for weight savings, but... you have to make a judgement what it's worth.. maybe the trans fluid simply would have to be changed/flushed more often without an extra cooler, pending how hard you drive/race. Having a trans fluid temp gauge is good idea (although it ads a fraction of weight!). Since I've been driving my Chally on various road course lapping events, as well as back on the street/hwy a little (off the trailer in other words), I've recently installed a new trans cooler.. one from a Cummins Dsl P/U.. even has the Chrysler logo and part number on it.. and it fits perfectly (price was right, too... free from a close racing buddy having a spare new one!).
A word of caution on extra volume trans pans -- too much fluid can run up and out of the dip stick when you corner and/or decelerate/corner making left-turns/curves... I've replaced the old deep pan with a stock depth factory pan and that grossly eliminates the excess fluid running out the dip stick... I even installed a new tube/locking dip stick and that helps, but doesn't stop all of excess fluid from a deeper pan.... so.. I suggest only using a factory-depth/volume pan... not any of the deeper pans.. too much fluid! (remember, too, I'm talking hi-G-force, such as competition events).
Excessive heat deteriorates the fluid and thus contributes to trans failure. Well, smaller torque converters also create increased heat.. but, they don't offer low-end torque due to their increased slippage. You need to know what you cam is designed for and the rpm range you'll normally drive the car in.. so, if you're driving locally on the street/hwy, you don't want the torquconvrtr to be slipping due to the stall. forget the hi-stall converters for autx or road course events.. kekk close to stock, such as something that is hooked at ~2000, maybe 2500 or ~2800 max... anything jhigher and you're only asking for eventual trouble, not to mention less drivability/responsiveness (smoothness) when you need it at the lower rpms.
Now, if you'd really want the best advantage of weight reduction... favor a manual trans (aluminum case, of course!).. since you'd further not have any need for a front mounted aux-trans cooler.
Then again, when I bought my Chally (in 1975!), it was and remains an automatic... I dream ($$) of maybe someday converting to a 4-5spd stick, and that would be cool as the pistol-grip handle is awesome and i used to own/drive a 4spd Chally as a daily driver, but the cost, hassle, etc is not worth it to me... I still race and compete succesfully with the automatic. but I do have a pistol-grip shift handle... cool!!