Reading a car mass air flow, volumetric air flow meter
There's no reason that an MAF couldn't be used with an Arduino.  It's likely that the sensor will run on 12v and output an analog voltage from 0 - 12, so you might need to use a voltage divider with the Arduino.

See this Sparkfun article on implementing a voltage divider to scale down the 0-12 volt signal to 0-5v for the Arduino.