French Car suspension .. any identical (307) (207)

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French Car suspension .. any identical (307) (207)

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Hello i been wondering if if suspension units are the same on any cars?
as i been looking to upgrade suspension on my Peugeot 307hdi to coil-overs. But they are hard to find.
i been looking at the Peugeot 207 suspension and they seem really identical to 307.
Could any1 help me out here ?
i know that Peugeot and Citroen engines are exactly the same so im wondering about suspension would be really helpful if anyone could help.
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Im not sure if any other suspension would be suitable. It might be worth asking the company who make the coil-overs.
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It might be an idea to sign up with Peugeot ServiceBox and do a cross-reference of the parts involved...

If they share anything then ServiceBox will surely show it...
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can coil overs be used with torsion bar suspension, i know T/B/S can be uprated but never studied the subject, so don't know anything about it,

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you can adjust the torsoin bars lower or higher to suit, mark the splines its on, slide it out and put it back a spline or two different, - is a bit more technical than that but in essence of how its done! ;-)
my old 309Gti had the tb 1 spline down, 1 spline is about 25mm, looked great and improved the handling lovely,
most cars with torsoin bars though have a simple shock arrangement out back rather than full strut and spring, you can get kits that use the shock as a strut with the springs on them, as a rear conversion, but the proper kits have a shorter shock in them,
207sw modding amongst the belgium peeps is quite high so kits are out there, and theyve done a few 307 sw's too,
heres a link to cleaned.be for a normal 307 http://www.cleaned.be/garage.php?action=toonmeer&id=69" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; they seem to favour the KW variant range of coilies
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another link, this one to a guy ive seen about over the years, sure he had a twin engined 205, mi32??
http://www.peugeotforum.be/viewtopic.php?t=7945" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
he's lowered his 307sw o a jamex kit
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