Bill,
C8AE-H is just a standard 390 cylinder head, nothing performance about it.
Perhaps it does have 14 or 16 exhaust manifold bolt holes and the owner took that to mean it was the cobra jet head, without checking casting numbers.
your friend on the DTBB, George
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