Sorry Alan,
My bad
My handle is from when I used to play an online game called Novalogic F16 Multirole fighter back in the late 90's when I was just a teenager.
I flow in an online squadron called Viper Strike (remember we were kids and this was in the 90's) we were all allocated a V number to designate when we joined the Squad....I was (luckily) the eigth member to join the squad following an online flight test and a few dogfight training session carried out by the online squad then I was invited to join....sounds sad, but it was actually great fun...
So that is were the V8 comes from - originally nothing to do with engines, just a happy coincidence.
Saint came from an online pairing with another virtual pilot called Angel - he was Angel.V10 and we formed an online friendship and we acted as virtual wingmen for each other, we became Saint and Angel (again remember we were teenagers... so this sounded cool)
We flew together for a couple of years in Viper Strike until the integrated Battle Space servers (the online space used to host the dogfights) started shutting down as the game was getting old and other online flight sims were taking over like Jane's and Microprose Falcon 4.0 were becoming the new online dogfight sims....
The Name Saint.V8 has stuck with me ever since....