One word, well two. Head gasket. Plan on getting down and dirty.
Combustion gets into the water jacket and really pressurizes the coolant. It also causes it to heat up quite a bit since you have so many bubbles in the coolant and bubbles dont work well as coolant. It blew the coolant everywhere because the bubbles expanded once the pressure was released.
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