Anyone local to me capable of correcting errors on a 904 race build

Now, tell me why .. any reasonable reason accepted , that someone that is fixing the transmission would cause an issue, fix the problem, then tell me about the issue after its fixed so he can throw shade at the original builder ?
Did your local builder call cope to tell him that his valve body was missing a drilled passage. I doubt it. He probably called Cope to tell him that the pressure were way over the top and did not know why. I sure Cope trusted your local builder to trust that he knew how to read a pressure gauge and through the conversation Cope asked him to check a few things and between the two of them Cope realized that a pressure bleed off hole was missing and that was causing the high pressures. Earlier I heard it mentioned of no forward gears at all. Over the top pressures would blow the seals out of the forward clutch causing no drive, no nothing.
So as I said Cope still assisted in fixing your trans. But how is your local builder supposed to know that passage was missing. He did not design it. But he was unable to completely fix it either.