Seattle area shop to work on 914, Where to go Options

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My 73 914 2.0 was rebuilt, stock rebuild including fuel injection, by Chris German in Redmond. Since they rebuilt the motor it's been back to them 3 or 4 times within 500 miles. 3 of those times when I picked it up it did not run good, including needing to be towed back within an hour of pickup due to the car dying on me. It's always a different mechanic and at least once the mechanic working on it had never worked on a 914 before, mine was the first for them. Most recently when I picked it up it was running poorly right when I started it, and the mechanic came out to look at it and talk to me. They talked about my motor like it was a basket case of problems-failing hoses, vacuum leak at intake mani due to bad gasket installation etc. Which really ticked me off as I had paid Chris' German a year earlier to do all that work, so their own mechanic is saying the work is bad!!!

Currently there is oil leaking out of the distributor, disconnected vacuum hoses under the hood, an intermittent wandering and high idle and throttle drop-off (seems like vacuum leak), and it has less power than when I dropped it off (potentially timing advance issue due to vacuum).

Is there any shop in the Seattle area that has a mechanic who is actually skilled and experienced at Type IV/914 wrench turning? Or any backyard mechanic even?