I think the PTFE is going to have to be close to the diameter of the filament or it's likely the filament will buckle in the tube as it softens, I've seen this happen even with a small gap between the botton of the cold end and the top of the hotend, and the filament will be a lot softer inside the PEEK.
There are a number of hotends that only require you swap out the PTFE liner to change from 1.75 to 3.0.